Goro Shigeno. Tatsuya Uesugi. Eijun Sawamura. Hyūma Hoshi. All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga ...

Christie’s will auction off a trove of anime, manga and traditional Japanese artworks this month. The sale, titled “Anime Starts Here: Japanese Subculture Imagines Tradition,” is the first New York ...

Introduction: The Representation of Japanese History in Manga / Roman Rosenbaum -- Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu's Phoenix / Rachael Hutchinson -- Reading Shōwa ...

50 years on, these manga series still hold up as genre-defining for their captivating stories and nostalgic artwork.

Living in Japan over the past fifty years, physical manga was everywhere. Chain bookstores, small independent shops and untold millions reading then on the train to work or school. Things have ...

The Summit of the Gods,” a manga masterpiece by Jiro Taniguchi, has made a triumphant return to Japan in the form of an ...