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Author of Yokai Attack!, Ninja Attack! and Yurei Attack!
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I love the Gacha Gacha Doraemon too!
http://www.bandai.co.jp/catalog/item/4543112396778000.html
Hello, Doraemon
The English-language ebook editions of Fujiko F. Fujio's classic manga "Doraemon" have started coming out. AltJapan translated it for Voyager Japan in association with Fujiko Productions - some 12,000-plus pages over the course of last year, easily the biggest manga localization with which we ...
Dave: Thanks for the comment! Yes, I remember those comics; they're the "bilingual editions" I mention in my post. They were intended, as you mention, as educational materials for Japanese speakers, not for entertainment or export. (The English is written in the margins, if I recall.) There is actually quite a bit of that sort of thing around - the late Kodansha International released bilingual editions of "Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro," "Princess Knight," and "Ghost in the Shell," among others. It's always cool to see translations, but I believe this edition of Doraemon lays claim to being the first true localization of the material. Apologies for not being clearer.
Yokohamama, I will definitely tweet if/when they're available in other regions!
Hello, Doraemon
The English-language ebook editions of Fujiko F. Fujio's classic manga "Doraemon" have started coming out. AltJapan translated it for Voyager Japan in association with Fujiko Productions - some 12,000-plus pages over the course of last year, easily the biggest manga localization with which we ...
I've never bought the "Jews came to Japan" theory any more than the one about Jesus supposedly being buried in Aomori, but some theories say the yokai known as Namahage were "inspired" by shipwrecked Russian sailors hiding out in the Japanese mountains as well.
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/dont-fear-the-reaper.html
Japan's Nose Obsession
By now you've undoubtedly read the brou-ha-ha over the "racist" ANA commercial featuring a Japanese dude wearing a huge prosthetic nose in an attempt to look foreign. Putting aside for a moment how much of a transgression the commercial represents, there's no question that "foreigners" and "long...
If we're going down that path, you can't forget the great granddaddy of all nuclear characters: Godzilla!
Yo Nukes
Japan loves mascots. There are enough of them out there to fill a book and many, many posts on the subject. Super-cute mascots aren't intended to be childish or condescending here; Japan's animistic, polytheistic roots seem to have given the nation the mutant power to transform nearly any object...
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