Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

Language app Duolingo and Crunchyroll – the Netflix of Anime – hope the answer is simple; a new, entertaining, and dare we say, ‘tanoshii’ (i.e., “fun”) way to learn Japanese.

Touching on themes as disparate as sex and death to science fiction and romance, manga and anime caters to all ages and tastes, and historical hits projected a new image of Japan to the world.

The frenetic cyberpunk anime, released in Japan on July 15, 1988, showed that cartoons across cultures could address larger social issues. Its intricate, ...

Anime often explores spiritual and philosophical questions by drawing on Japan’s religious traditions to examine themes of fate, self-sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty.