Manga Publishing’s Strategic Pivot to India
Analysis of Yoshitoki Ōima’s India tour as a strategic publishing play by Japanese stakeholders targeting institutional gatekeepers and emerging market share.
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Category: Japan
AnimeJapan 2026: Unprecedented Business Opportunities for Publishing Professionals
AnimeJapan 2026 offers publishing professionals unprecedented access to licensing deals and market insights at Tokyo Big Sight, 30-31 March, following record-breaking public days.
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Adjusted For Inflation – the Worrying Reality Behind Industry Statistics
My guess is that, behind closed boardroom doors, inflation is considered – else we’d see far more companies fail – but the “real” figures do not make for good industry headlines.
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TokyoPop and Mattel Partner for Manga-Style Barbie and Hot Wheels Graphic Novels
As a teacher now, I know most kids would rather read a real novel about toys and TV characters they know and love, than a poorly ghostwritten kids’ story fronted by a TV celebrity their parents like.
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Japan’s AI-Powered Anti-Piracy Initiative: Protecting Manga and Anime
Using AI to combat piracy? An outrageous idea. A slippery slope. The thin edge of the wedge. Once we start looking objectively at AI instead of taking every opportunity to demonise it, where will it end?
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Sony to expand investment in Japan’s Kadokawa with 50 billion yen, 20 billion of which will be used to to ‘create, develop and acquire new IP
We are witnesses to, and participants in, a New Global Renaissance quite unparalleled in human history, and the era of AI will help that renaissance shift up a gear as it liberates human creativity and potential.
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Along Came A Spider-Manga – east meets west in a new comics collaboration
The Manga will be released simultaneously in English on Viz Media’s Viz Manga app starting August 13 (U.S. time) and in Japan by Shogakukan on August 14 (Japan time).
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Japanese laureate deals fatal blow to notion that AI will never write as well as a human
A book part-written by AI has won a prestigious literary award. A fatal blow to the AI Resistance, but also a whole load of trouble for lawmakers and AI regulators who thought they had the topic nailed.
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Rights News: Finland – “Beasts of the Sea” sold to Japan and the Arabic markets
This year at TNPS we’re going to try shed some light on the international rights deals happening where the English-language sun doesn’t shine.
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Will western publishers finally wake up to online reading now Amazon and Apple are in the webtoon game?
Imagine if an old School publishing CEO had been in charge of Apple. The iPod, iPhone and iPad...
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Japan Book Publishers Association demands copyright law review in light of AI developments
The group stressed the need to clarify the interpretation of, and decide whether copyright law...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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