MOVIES Paprika (R) Sony Pictures Classics (90 min.) Directed by Satoshi Kon. With the voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Akio Ohtsuka. In Japanese, with English subtitles. Opens Friday at theaters in New ...

Roger Dahl has decided to retire from his The Japan Times cartooning career after 35 years. Gebdel Gento writes of Roger Dahl ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. This work from 1979 about a kindly inventor who lives in the woods certainly looks ...

HONG KONG – Walt Disney is to begin broadcasting Japanese cartoon “Doraemon,” the first time in the iconic series’ history that it will play in English in the U.S. Some 26 English-dubbed episodes will ...

TOKYO – Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. Foreign Minister Masahiko ...

Japan’s most beloved pop culture icon has been Disney-fied, prompting an online conversation among devoted Japanese anime fans. Doraemon, a robotic cat from the 22nd century, first appeared in print ...

Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura ...

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized Doraemon doll an official certificate at an inauguration ceremony, along with dozens of "dorayaki" red ...