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Chinese New Year - Paris

Performers animate a golden dragon during a Chinese New Year parade in Paris, France, on February 5, 2025. Paris celebrates Chinese New Year with colorful parades, lion and dragon dances, brightly lit red lanterns, firecrackers, martial arts, drums, and other festivities throughout the city's Chinese and Asian neighborhoods in January or February to welcome the Lunar New Year. Photo by Olivia Bonnamour/Middle East Images/AABACAPRESS.COM

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Chinese New Year - Paris

Performers animate a golden dragon during a Chinese New Year parade in Paris, France, on February 5, 2025. Paris celebrates Chinese New Year with colorful parades, lion and dragon dances, brightly lit red lanterns, firecrackers, martial arts, drums, and other festivities throughout the city's Chinese and Asian neighborhoods in January or February to welcome the Lunar New Year. Photo by Olivia Bonnamour/Middle East Images/AABACAPRESS.COM

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Chinese New Year - Paris

Performers animate a golden dragon during a Chinese New Year parade in Paris, France, on February 5, 2025. Paris celebrates Chinese New Year with colorful parades, lion and dragon dances, brightly lit red lanterns, firecrackers, martial arts, drums, and other festivities throughout the city's Chinese and Asian neighborhoods in January or February to welcome the Lunar New Year. Photo by Olivia Bonnamour/Middle East Images/AABACAPRESS.COM

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Chinese New Year - Paris

Performers animate a golden dragon during a Chinese New Year parade in Paris, France, on February 5, 2025. Paris celebrates Chinese New Year with colorful parades, lion and dragon dances, brightly lit red lanterns, firecrackers, martial arts, drums, and other festivities throughout the city's Chinese and Asian neighborhoods in January or February to welcome the Lunar New Year. Photo by Olivia Bonnamour/Middle East Images/AABACAPRESS.COM

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Apapane wins Hanshin Juvenile Fillies

OSAKA, Japan - Second favorite Apapane (L) races for victory in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2009, edging fifth favorite Animate Bio (C).

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Japanese manga goods store opens in Bangkok

Photo shows a Japanese manga and animation goods store which opened on Feb. 6, 2016, in Bangkok. The first Thai branch of "animate" -- a store chain operated by Japan Manga Alliance Co. -- sells about 30,000 items, including Japanese comic books translated into Thai and model figures imported from Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese manga goods store opens in Bangkok

Photo shows a Japanese manga and animation goods store which opened on Feb. 6, 2016, in Bangkok. The first Thai branch of "animate" -- a store chain operated by Japan Manga Alliance Co. -- sells about 30,000 items, including Japanese comic books translated into Thai and model figures imported from Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cat mascots popular in former "no-go" zone in Fukushima

Various cat mascots made by handicraft class students taught by Hisayo Imaizumi (L) are shown on May 1, 2015, in the Miyakoji district, a former "no-go zone" of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. Named "miyaako-chan" after the imagined way the district's name might be said by a Japanese cat, they are designed to animate residents in the northeastern Japan region hit by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese publishers to fight against comic piracy in Thailand

Samples of comic books to be sold at stores in Thailand by the Japan Manga Alliance, established by publishing giants Kadokawa Corp., Kodansha Ltd., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan Inc. along with animation goods retailer Animate Co., are shown at a news conference announcing the launch of the joint venture in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2015. The group hopes their presence in Bangkok will help terminate pirated versions in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese publishers to fight against comic piracy in Thailand

Animation goods retailer Animate Co. officer Shingo Kunieda (R) speaks during a press conference announcing the establishment of the Japan Manga Alliance in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2015. The joint venture, joined by publishing giants Kadokawa Corp., Kodansha Ltd., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan Inc., aims to open shop in Thailand in an effort to terminate pirated versions in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Apapane wins Hanshin Juvenile Fillies

OSAKA, Japan - Second favorite Apapane (L) races for victory in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2009, edging fifth favorite Animate Bio (C). (Kyodo)