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Exhibition on manga history held in Taiwan

The opening ceremony of an exhibition tracking the history of manga in Japan and Taiwan is held at the National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung on Aug. 16, 2025. Over 300 items, including those related to Japanese manga legend Osamu Tezuka, are on display at the exhibition, co-hosted by Japan's Kyoto International Manga Museum, for a run through Oct. 12.

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[Breaking News]New Tezuka Black Jack manga episode created using AI unveiled

TOKYO, Nov. 20 Kyodo - A new episode of Osamu Tezuka's famous "Black Jack" manga made with the help of artificial intelligence was unveiled Monday, with the creators saying that while the work reflected the spirit of the late legendary manga artist, its ability to depict human feelings remains an issue.(Kyodo)

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New "Black Jack" manga episode to be released using AI

Members of the TEZUKA2023 project, under which a new episode of the well-known Osamu Tezuka manga "Black Jack" will be created with the help of artificial intelligence, attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 12, 2023.

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Cartoonist Tezuka's characters aid Japan fencing

TOKYO, Japan - Women's sabre fencer Misaki Emura (L) poses as "Princess Sapphire," the protagonist in the popular comic series "Princess Knight" written by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 2015, together with the legendary manga character "Astro Boy" in a publicity blitz led by the Japan Fencing Federation to promote the sport.

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Cartoonist Tezuka's characters used to promote fencing

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Fencing Federation unveils in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 2015, new characters produced jointly with Tezuka Productions Co., an animation production company created by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, for use in a publicity blitz for the sport. The characters include "Astro Boy" while Yuki Ota, a two-time Olympic foil silver medalist, and six other medalists will also be drawn as Tezuka characters for the campaign.

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Visitor to Tezuka museum views cartoonist's draft drawings

KOBE, Japan - A visitor to the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, views the legendary cartoonist's draft drawings, displayed along with selected pages of a completed version on May 24, 2014.

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Tourism envoys promote Takarazuka, home to all-female troupe

KOBE, Japan - Yuka Jogan (L) and Mai Maeda, both serving as fourth-generation Tourism Ambassador Sapphire for the city of Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, pose during an event in January 2014. They are named after the main character in the girls' manga series "Ribon no Kishi" (Princess Knight) by famed cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, who lived in the city for two decades and was a big fan of the all-female Takarazuka Revue company.

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Daughter finds Tezuka's drawings in locked desk

TOKYO, Japan - Rumiko Tezuka, daughter of famed Japanese manga creator Osamu Tezuka, speaks at Tezuka Productions' studio in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on April 1, 2014, about newly discovered drawings and other items found in her father's desk drawers that had remained locked since his death in 1989. The drawers of the desk, kept at the studio, were opened for the first time in 25 years on March 27.

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Students gather around Tezuka's drawings

KUSHIRO, Japan - A group of students at Obihiro Kashiwa Elementary School in Obihiro, Hokkaido gather around a panel with original drawings by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka on Feb. 18, 2014. The panel was donated to the school by a former comic magazine editor.

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Recreated 'Tokiwa So' apartment

OSAKA, Japan - A recreated version of the demolished "Tokiwa So" apartment, which was home to cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori, is shown during a special exhibit at Osaka Museum of History in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 25, 2014. The exhibit runs through March 10.

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Macross exhibition at Tezuka museum

KOBE, Japan - A "life-size" model of the cockpit of a "VF-1 Valkyrie" fighter from science fiction anime series Macross is shown at a preview at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 27, 2013. The special exhibition of the Macross series opened the following day and will run through October 28.

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Macross exhibition at Tezuka museum

KOBE, Japan - A "life-size" model of the cockpit of a "VF-1 Valkyrie" fighter from science fiction anime series Macross is shown at a preview at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 27, 2013. The special exhibition of the Macross series opened the following day and will run through October 28.

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Tezuka 'manga' comics available in China via mobile phones

BEIJING, China - A woman in Beijing shows a mobile phone displaying ''Astro Boy,'' a 'manga' comic character created by Japanese artist Osamu Tezuka, on April 7, 2010. Japan's Tezuka Productions Co. and Hong Kong's Forest Line Union Holdings Co. have begun distributing three ''manga'' comics by Tezuka all of which already have Chinese translations to mobile phone users in China.

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'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation.

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'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation.

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'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, one of the 83 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who were elected in 2005 for the first time on the back of the popularity of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, bows to supporters at her campaign office in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2009, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives. Sato, a former chief economist at Credit Suisse First Boston who became one of Koizumi's ''assassin'' candidates fielded against LDP dissidents, was defeated in her constituency in Tokyo by the DPJ's Yoshio Tezuka, 42, who served two terms in the lower house before losing his seat in 2005.

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Students to promote manga giant Tezuka's hometown Takarazuka

KOBE, Japan - Students Ayuko Sogo (L) and Hiroko Sadato are photographed at the cultural and creation center in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, after being designated as ''tourism ambassadors'' on May 10 to promote the city, which is the hometown of legendary Japanese ''manga'' comic artist Osamu Tezuka.

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Police arrest Mitutoyo execs over nuke-linked exports

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrest Kazusaku Tezuka (photo), president of precision instruments maker Mitutoyo Corp., and four other company executives on Aug. 25 on suspicion of exporting without a license two measuring devices convertible for use in building nuclear weapons.

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Tezuka Productions subsidiary to begin producing own animation work

BEIJING, China - Japan's Tezuka Productions, which manages copyright for works by the late animation artist Osamu Tezuka, holds a press briefing in Beijing on June 13 on its plans to begin producing its own animation works at its China subsidiary.

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Diamond-studded Astro Boy displayed at Kyoto department store

KYOTO, Japan - A diamond-studded Astro Boy, a cartoon character created by the late Osamu Tezuka, is displayed at a department store in Kyoto on July 24. The 10-centimeter character, which is studded with some 100,000,000 yen worth of diamonds, was made to mark his birthday, which falls on April 7, 2003, according to Tezuka's story.

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(2)Events held to mark comic hero Astro Boy's 'birth'

TOKYO, Japan - The mayor of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, Hiroko Nakayama(R), hands a plaque on April 7 to a person dressed as Astro Boy, a cartoon character created by the late Osamu Tezuka, designating the character as the ward's ''special futuristic envoy'' to act as a mascot for various events. Tezuka's story depicts Astro Boy, a robot, being created April 7, 2003 at a ''Science Ministry'' in the ward.

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Events held to mark comic hero Astro Boy's birth

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Visitors to the public museum on the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, receive dolls of Astro Boy, a cartoon character created by Tezuka, on April 7 to mark Astro Boy's birth. Tezuka's story depicts Astro Boy, a robot, being created April 7, 2003 at a ''Science Ministry.''

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Takashimaya to hold 'birthday' exhibition on Astro Boy

TOKYO, Japan - A jewel-studded robot is put for press preview by department store operator Takashimaya Co. on April 1, on the eve of an exhibition the company holds at its Nihombashi store to celebrate the birthday of cartoon character Astro Boy. In the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's popular science fiction story, Tetsuwan Atom, known as Astro Boy in English, was brought to life on April 7, 2003. The head and shorts of the 10-centimeter-high robot model is made of black diamonds, while rubies, emeralds and diamonds are used for other parts. The model, which is not for sale, is covered by jewels totaling 32 carats and is worth almost 100 million yen.

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Statue unveiled at JR Kyoto Station on World Water Forum

KYOTO, Japan - A statue depicting the late Osamu Tezuka's cartoon 'Firebird' and water is unveiled at the JR Kyoto Station building March 15 as the World Water Forum opens in Kyoto on March 16. The eight-day event aims at raising global awareness of water issues and committing the international community to action.

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New Osamu Tezuka manga plotted, designed by AI to be published

TOKYO, Feb. 26 : A new manga plotted and designed by artificial intelligence that learned the artistic style of "Astro Boy" manga creator Osamu Tezuka will be published this week, a project sponsor said Wednesday.The manga "Paidon" to be released Thursday in weekly comic magazine "Morning" has been created by AI, which analyzed 65 works by Tezuka, including such classics as "Phoenix" and "Black Jack," according to Kioxia Holdings Corp., a memory chip maker that launched the project. By analyzing Tezuka's works, AI generated character designs and basic storylines before professional creators added such elements as clothing and dialogue to complete the work. "I always felt sad whenever Osamu Tezuka fans said they could no longer enjoy his new work. AI creating his new work...that's exactly the kind of (technologically advanced) world depicted in Tezuka's manga," the late author's son and video creator Makoto Tezuka, who contributed to the project, told a press conference in Tokyo.

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Popular Japanese cartoonist Fujiko A. Fujio dies at 88

Photo taken on April 7, 2022, shows a manga museum in Tokyo that houses recreated rooms of a demolished Tokiwaso apartment building that was home to legendary Japanese cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori during the 1950s and 1960s. Fujiko A. Fujio, who also resided there, has died at his home in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, at 88, police said April 7.

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Tezuka Productions subsidiary to begin producing own animation w

BEIJING, China - Japan's Tezuka Productions, which manages copyright for works by the late animation artist Osamu Tezuka, holds a press briefing in Beijing on June 13 on its plans to begin producing its own animation works at its China subsidiary. (Kyodo)

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Students to promote manga giant Tezuka's hometown Takarazuka

KOBE, Japan - Students Ayuko Sogo (L) and Hiroko Sadato are photographed at the cultural and creation center in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, after being designated as ''tourism ambassadors'' on May 10 to promote the city, which is the hometown of legendary Japanese ''manga'' comic artist Osamu Tezuka. (Kyodo)

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Takashimaya to hold 'birthday' exhibition on Astro Boy

TOKYO, Japan - A jewel-studded robot is put for press preview by department store operator Takashimaya Co. on April 1, on the eve of an exhibition the company holds at its Nihombashi store to celebrate the birthday of cartoon character Astro Boy. In the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's popular science fiction story, Tetsuwan Atom, known as Astro Boy in English, was brought to life on April 7, 2003. The head and shorts of the 10-centimeter-high robot model is made of black diamonds, while rubies, emeralds and diamonds are used for other parts. The model, which is not for sale, is covered by jewels totaling 32 carats and is worth almost 100 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)

Godzilla Film: Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) Director: Masaki Tezuka 03 November 2003 Date: 03 November 2003

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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)

Godzilla Film: Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) Director: Masaki Tezuka 03 November 2003 Date: 03 November 2003

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Ex-worker of Shanghai studio views photos of Japan cartoonist Tezuka

Duan Xiaoxuan, an 81-year-old former cameraman of Shanghai Animation Film Studio, takes a look at pictures of the late Osamu Tezuka, a famed Japanese cartoonist, on Aug. 12, 2015. He was on friendly terms with Tezuka, who set great store by friendship through exchanges between the Japanese and Chinese animation industries in the years immediately after World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photos of China's animation pioneer on show at Shanghai museum

Photo taken on Aug. 12, 2015, shows pictures of Wan Laiming, a pioneer of China's animation industry, displayed at the Shanghai Movie Museum. The late Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka visited Wan in 1981 to tell him that he was inspired by the latter's animation movie of the earliest chapters of "Journey to the West," one of China's great classical novels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitor views "Astro Boy" comic at H.K. book fair

A visitor to a Hong Kong book fair is absorbed in the late Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" comic on July 15, 2015, at a booth of Hyogo Prefecture, a western Japan region where Tezuka spent his childhood. Six Japanese municipalities had display booths at the Japanese pavilion. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-WWII "kamikaze" pilot raps suicide mission as unjustifiable

Former World War II "kamikaze" pilot Hisashi Tezuka speaks to Kyodo News in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on May 19, 2015. He denounced the suicide attack strategy as unjustifiable. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cartoonist Tezuka's war-themed works on exhibit at his museum

A woman looks at one of the 10 manuscripts related to wars by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka during a private preview at the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 27, 2015, ahead of a special exhibition of his war-themed works from March 1 through June 29. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lighting gear made with festival float decorative paper proves popular

A lighting device made with paper used to decorate floats in the Aomori Nebuta Festival in Aomori, northern Japan, is shown in this file photo taken on Dec. 17, 2014. Lighting gear produced by Nebuta artists Hiroo Takenami and Shigeki Tezuka has found strong demand. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lightening gear made with festival float decorative paper on show

Lighting devices made with paper used to decorate floats in the Aomori Nebuta Festival in Aomori, northern Japan are on display in this file photo taken on Dec. 17, 2014. Lighting gear produced by Nebuta artists Hiroo Takenami and Shigeki Tezuka has found strong demand. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hankyu to run trains decorated with "Astro Boy" images

Hankyu Corp. shows trains decorated with illustrations of characters from the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's popular comic series "Astro Boy" at Takarazuka Station in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 31, 2015. The trains, launched on Nov. 1, will run on Hankyu's Takarazuka and Kobe lines through the end of November 2017. Tezuka lived around the Takarazuka Line during his childhood. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nintendo's popular Super Mario Brothers game marks 30th anniv.

Takashi Tezuka, Nintendo Co.'s video game designer who was involved in producing the popular Super Mario Brothers video game series when it debuted in 1985, holds a plush Mario toy as he speaks about his career during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on Sept. 11, 2015, two days ahead of the game's 30th anniversary. Tezuka, currently general manager of Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development Department, remains involved as a supervisor for the game series. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation. (Kyodo)

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'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation. (Kyodo)

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'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, one of the 83 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who were elected in 2005 for the first time on the back of the popularity of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, bows to supporters at her campaign office in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2009, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives. Sato, a former chief economist at Credit Suisse First Boston who became one of Koizumi's ''assassin'' candidates fielded against LDP dissidents, was defeated in her constituency in Tokyo by the DPJ's Yoshio Tezuka, 42, who served two terms in the lower house before losing his seat in 2005. (Kyodo)

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Police arrest Mitutoyo execs over nuke-linked exports

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrest Kazusaku Tezuka (photo), president of precision instruments maker Mitutoyo Corp., and four other company executives on Aug. 25 on suspicion of exporting without a license two measuring devices convertible for use in building nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Manga master Tezuka's legacy extends to robots

TOKYO, Japan - Takayuki Matsutani, president of Tezuka Productions Co. and former manager of the late ''manga'' master Osama Tezuka, speaks about the comic master in an interview with Kyodo News at his office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Jan. 30. (Kyodo)

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Company unaware exporting sensitive devices was illegal

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kazusaku Tezuka, president of high-tech precision instruments maker Mitutoyo Corp., denies at a press conference that the company had knowingly engaged in illegal exports of machinery that may be converted for use in nuclear weapons production. Police raided the company the previous day on suspicion of exporting three-dimension precision-measuring machines, which could be used to make centrifuge machines to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons to China and Thailand around 2001 and 2002 without authorization from the government. (Kyodo)

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Works of manga artist Tezuka being reissued

TOKYO, Japan - A collage comprising an image of the late manga artist Osamu Tezuka and the front of reissued versions of some of his works in the background. (Kyodo)

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English versions of Tezuka manga on iPad

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an English version of a comic book series written by Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka on an iPad tablet computer. Tezuka Productions Co. said July 13, 2011, it started the digital service for iPad users distributing his works including ''Astro Boy'' in English. (Kyodo)

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Tezuka 'manga' comics available in China via mobile phones

BEIJING, China - A woman in Beijing shows a mobile phone displaying ''Astro Boy,'' a 'manga' comic character created by Japanese artist Osamu Tezuka, on April 7, 2010. Japan's Tezuka Productions Co. and Hong Kong's Forest Line Union Holdings Co. have begun distributing three ''manga'' comics by Tezuka all of which already have Chinese translations to mobile phone users in China. (Kyodo)

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Tezuka 'manga' comics available in China via mobile phones

BEIJING, China - A woman in Beijing shows a mobile phone displaying ''Astro Boy,'' a 'manga' comic character created by Japanese artist Osamu Tezuka, on April 7, 2010. Japan's Tezuka Productions Co. and Hong Kong's Forest Line Union Holdings Co. have begun distributing three ''manga'' comics by Tezuka all of which already have Chinese translations to mobile phone users in China. (Kyodo)