The Cool Japan initiative is positioned front ... The former focuses on seri, the uniquely Japanese art and ritual of auctioning just-caught fish at the harbor. The latter is an animated story ...

One million Chinese will be living in Japan by next year, according to some estimates, driven by families enrolling their children in academies linked to Japan’s animation industry, where the be ...

Almost a decade after its founding, Cool Japan Fund Inc. may be merged with other investment funds or eliminated if it cannot turn around its losses soon. That was a proposal a subcommittee of the ...

The central government originally created Cool Japan Fund Inc. in 2013 to support overseas sales of cultural products such as anime and Japanese cuisine, and saw it as a potential winner that ...