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The craze for Japanese manga is taking the country by storm.
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In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
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And manifestations of Japanese popular culture-from Manga comics to karaoke-are now all the rage among young Chinese.
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The story about a prostitute in Tokyo sold nearly 3 million copies and was adapted for film, television and Manga, or Japanese comics.
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Murakami is a serious artist, whose theory of the "Superflat" opened the door for a comparison of manga with classical Japanese scroll painting and printmaking, but the show was promoted with a quote from Marc Jacobs, the fashion designer with whom he'd collaborated on Louis Vuitton handbags.
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Destruction portrayed in Akira and other manga, Natume says, represents the Japanese desire to build a brave new world as old values are destroyed.
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The new Japanese Kindle Store, which will launch on October 25, offering customers the largest selection of digital best sellers in Japan, with the most titles from this week's Oricon top 100 books, top 50 bunko, and top 100 manga lists and a total of over 50, 000 Japanese-language Kindle books including over 10, 000 free Japanese titles and a broad selection of works from a wide range of leading Japanese authors and publishers.
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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2012-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)- Today, Amazon.co.jp is excited to announce that the all-new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD are coming to Japan, giving Japanese customers access to Amazon's vast selection of over 22 million books, manga, apps, games and songs, plus web browsing, email and more.
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Like Manga, the (sometimes violent) graphic novels that have made it across the Pacific, the very Japanese-ness of Wonderful Life makes it more interesting.
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