ALBAWABA - An episode of the famous Japanese cartoon, called "Mīmu Iro Iro Yume no Tabi which means The Many Dream Journeys of Meme," resurfaced again online for depicting the future about 40 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix is ramping up its international original animation production with several new Japanese series. Last summer, Netflix ...

While Japan’s human diplomats struggle to quell rising tensions with China over the South and East China Sea, their “anime ambassador”—a red bean pancake loving, 22 nd century CGI cartoon cat named ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ...

As a celebration of National Day, the CCTV in China is now showing a 36 episodes 3-D Cartoon “Devil soldiers in Mao-er Mountain” (帽兒山的鬼子兵)in October. The cartoon was produced by a company in ...

Tom and Jerry have gotten a pretty major rework in Japan, where animators have created a new kawaii (cute) version of the iconic cat and mouse. Cartoon Network Japan, owned by Tom and Jerry IP-holders ...

As we speak, emergency crews are trying to contain the radiation leaking out of cracked reactors in Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It’s a difficult time, with the nuclear crisis coming ...

Apart from Eeyore, Droopy, and maybe a couple of low-energy Smurfs, there aren’t too many sad, mopey characters in the pantheon of Western animation. Cartoon characters tend to be upbeat, confident, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Takashi Yanase, creator of one of Japan's most beloved cartoon characters, Anpanman, has died of heart failure, his studio said Tuesday. He was 94. Yanase died at a Tokyo hospital early ...

Animoca Brands is announcing two mobile games based on Astro Boy, a famous anime and manga cartoon series from Japan. For Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, a spin-off from mobile-game maker Animoca, ...