Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

BANGKOK--Thailand's emerging student pro-democracy movement has adopted a Japanese cartoon hamster, Hamtaro, as a creative way to get support from young people around the country. University and ...

The interviewer asked how to maximize the popularity of anime in light of past failures, such as the Japanese government's Cool Japan project ... the popular American cartoon series, with the ...