Anime features non-Japanese characters, including European nobles and Chinese-American cowboy figures, who introduce distinctive perspectives and cultural layers that enhance the anime medium.

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

BEIJING: A Chinese woman cosplaying as Lady Rocky from the famous animated film Ne Zha 2 has been mistaken for a Japanese character by a man who issued verbal insults and tried to physically ...

To Be Hero X is China's latest anime, and one of the best anime of the season, giving Japan reason to be worried about the ...

Why, then, must the script that inspired them all remain obscured behind the generic veil of “Chinese character”? It is as if we insisted on calling kanji “Japanese symbols” or hieroglyphics “Egyptian ...