Japan's laws allow the use of copyrighted content to train AI models. Even though artists are worried for their future, some of the country's cultural and social aspects might make it easier to ...

Zag, the independent animation studio founded by Jeremy Zag, “Miraculous” co-creator and producer, is opening an outpost in Japan and has appointed former Toei Animation boss Kanji Kazahaya as ...

Japan is withdrawing its official development assistance (ODA) for a key railway project in Myanmar that has stood as a symbol of cooperation between the two countries for the past 10 years.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will send dozens of medical workers to Myanmar on Wednesday as part of its emergency support for the Southeast Asian country fo ...

Japan's animation industry leaders have combined forces to launch a YouTube anime initiative with big targets ... but there are also plans to add sub-titled content in English and Chinese for ...

Smoke billows from a Kyoto Animation building in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 18, 2019. A murder trial began Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, for the 2019 deadly arson attack on the Kyoto animation studio ...

Toei Animation, one of Japan’s oldest animation studios, is embracing some of the industry’s newest technology. The company is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up ...

Japan's Kyoto District court on Thursday sentenced a man to death after he was found guilty of murder in the 2019 arson of an animation studio that killed dozens and injured others.

A man who deliberately set fire to a three-story animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 2019, killing 36 people, has been sentenced to death for mass murder.

The officials are to arrange for the planned dispatch of an emergency relief team to the Southeast Asian nation hit by a magnitude-7.7 earthquake.

A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack on an anime studio that killed 36 people in 2019 said he accepted the court's verdict, a local media report said.