Christie's first anime and manga auction spans 40 lots ranging from anime cel drawings, vintage film posters, and Japanese ...

With the $16.5 million sale of a Pikachu Illustrator card confirming the strength of the nostalgia economy, the auction house is placing manga and anime—long dismissed as subculture—firmly within ...

Doraemon is far from what you would think of a scary character in Japanese pop culture. Appearing as an adorable feline who hails from the future, the character first premiered in the 1960s and has ...

COURTESY FUJIO F. FUJIKO MUSEUM Doraemon, the titular star of a manga series by Fujiko Fujio and countless animated adaptations over the years, remains a largely unknown commodity in the United States ...

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 ...