Despite the growing global popularity of Japanese media ... While Chiba’s drawings that were archived by the cultural agency’s initiative had already been sorted in envelopes by episode ...

Original drawings by famous manga artists, such as Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), have fetched high prices at auctions abroad. Some critics feel such cultural resources are being drained from Japan.

After leaving the NBC sketch comedy ... of what matters in the culture,” Schur said on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. “And when [Carell] did ‘The Japanese Office’, I remember ...