Usui, Japan News

Last week, The Japan Times picked Hikaru Utada as the most influential artist of the past decade.

Crayon Shin-chan is a Japanese manga and anime series written by Yoshito Usui, who was born in 1951 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

THOUSANDS of manga fans flocked to the funeral on Monday of Japanese cartoonist Yoshito Usui, whose cheeky schoolboy character Shin-chan delighted millions.

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The great print works of ukiyo-e, by the likes of Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro, became fine art almost by accident.

Yoshito Usui, the "Crayon Shin-chan" cartoonist whose body was found on Mt. Arafune in Gunma Prefecture on Saturday, may have slipped from a rock face while taking a photograph, according to the publisher of the work.

The publisher of "Crayon Shin-chan" on Monday expressed its regret over the death of Yoshito Usui, the creator of the popular manga series.

A body found on a mountain in Japan was confirmed as popular cartoonist Yoshito Usui, whose manga and animation series "Crayon Shin-chan" has attracted a worldwide fan base, a report said.

Things that serve merely a use value function are green-screened out in the USian Capitalist, branded, techno-social economic delusion.

NAGANO, Japan, June 20 KYODO Two people were killed Saturday in a car accident in an expressway tunnel near the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, police said.

The president of a market research company in Minato Ward, Tokyo, and five others were arrested Wednesday by Hyogo prefectural police on suspicion of selling the firm's unlisted stocks to an 81-year-old man by falsely claiming they were sure to increase in value.