Search Results for 'Japan'

Point Park Anime Club aims to celebrate Japanese art form, p...

Katie Castelli is quite enthusiastic about celebrating the art of anime. "I couldn't be without an anime club, and I don't feel like other people should be without it either," said Castelli, a freshman mass communication [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Disney Hopes ‘Arrietty’ Will Be Breakthrough for Japanese St...

Disney is putting its weight behind the coming animated film, “The Secret World of Arrietty,” a Studio Ghibli feature that is based on Mary Norton’s beloved children’s book, “The Borrowers.” “A [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Anime Visalia Japanese animation club going strong for two d...

It's been nearly 20 years since Spring Logan of Tulare fell in love with Japanese animation known as anime. Marriage and two kids later, her attraction to the art is as strong as ever. "I like the art and storytelling," Loga [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Anime warms Russian, Japanese ties

My career in anime cultural diplomacy started in 2007 when I was asked by the Foreign Ministry to give a lecture to diplomats prior to their overseas postings. The lecture covered the anime industry and its goals. One of the diplomats [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Japanese anime fans set new Twitter record

Last weekend, a Japanese television broadcast of classic Studio Ghibli anime Castle in the Sky prompted more than 11,349 tweets per second at a key moment in the movie. This perfect storm of tweets broke the previous record of 8,868 tweet [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Japan to host anime festival in Beijing

The Japanese Embassy in Beijing said Monday it will host an anime festival in Beijing next week as part of the Japanese government's efforts to foster positive Chinese sentiment toward Japan. Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemb [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Anime, manga and Japanese pop culture at Baltimore Otakon Co...

The setting is mid-July, downtown Baltimore and the city is in the middle of a heat wave that would inspire even the most conservative to walk around in a minimum of clothes all day. Your destination is the convention center to cover a co [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

San Japan booms with anime, colorful costumes

And you thought colorful characters only brightened up downtown San Antonio during Fiesta. San Japan 4TW has lit up the Marriott Rivercenter hotel and surrounding environs with hordes of young convention goers, many sporting vibra [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Thought Auto-Tune was evil? Get a load of Japan's next-gen C...

Call it plastic pop if you will, but credit to the big brains at the University of Tokyo for making the effort to craft the modern synthetic chart-topper into something altogether more natural. If the news still doesn't sound like [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Heroes Cast Voices Marvel Anime, Thundercats' Snarf Voiced i...

At the WonderCon comics event in San Francisco on Saturday, Marvel Head of Television Jeph Loeb announced the star voice actors for two Marvel/Madhouse anime collaboration projects. Milo Ventimiglia (left) will voice Wolverine protagonis [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Lessons of Anime -- How to Cope with Japan’s Tragedy

In Japan’s most popular cultural genres known as manga (comic books) and anime (animation films and series), there’s a recurrent theme in which the country is routinely devastated. Tokyo, home to more than 30 million peo [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

NHS Anime Club Raising Funds For Japan Earthquake Victims

A Northview High School club is working to raise funds for earthquake victims in Japan. The Northview Anime Club is selling t-shirts and rubber bracelets, with all proceeds going to the Americares relief effort in Japan. Bracelets should [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

'Summer Wars' is Japanese anime fun about Web peril, teen he...

The Internet is messed up - everywhere. And Oz, a mega-site that combines social networking with e-commerce with entertainment and the chance to order pizza, has been corrupted. It's a World Wide Web catastrophe, but luckily there [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Legendary Japanese Anime Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki Turns 70 (...

People all over the world adore Japanese anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, and they’ve taken to Twitter to wish the artist a happy 70th birthday. Miyazaki has helped shape the world of anime over the course of his five-decade career [...]