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Akiko Higashimura
is a Japanese manga artist from Kushima in Miyazaki Prefecture. She debuted in the now-defunct manga magazine ''Bouquet Deluxe'' in 1999 with and later gained notoriety for her manga , which debuted in ''Cookie'' magazine in 2001. Higashimura was nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2008 for ''Himawari: Kenichi Legend'', in 2009 for ''Mama wa Tenparist'', in 2010 for ''Princess Jellyfish'', in 2011 for , and in 2016 and 2017 for ''Tokyo Tarareba Girls''. In 2010, she won the 34th Kodansha Manga Award for Best Manga for ''Princess Jellyfish''. In 2015, she won both the 8th Manga Taishō and the Grand Prize at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival for '' Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey''. In 2019, she won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia for ''Tokyo Tarareba Girls''. Higashimura's younger brother, Takuma Morishige, is the author of the manga ''My Neighbor Seki''. Works * (2001–present, Shueisha) * (2006–2010, Kodansha) * (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kushima, Miyazaki
is a city located in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on November 3, 1954. As of June 1, 2019, the city has an estimated population of 17,457 and a population density of 59.1 persons per km2. The total area is . The city is served by the Nichinan Line of the JR Kyūshū railway system, which links it to the west to Shibushi in neighbouring Kagoshima Prefecture and to the north to the prefectural capital, Miyazaki. Within the boundaries of the municipality (but some distance from its main built-up areas) lies the island of Kōjima, known for the field studies site of the Primate Research Institute, where studies on wild-living Japanese macaque monkeys are carried out. Koigaura is a surfing spot in Kushima. Every year, in the summer, surfers from all over the country visit this beautiful place. Geography Climate Kushima has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agency For Cultural Affairs
The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). It was set up in 1968 to promote Japanese arts and culture. The agency's budget for FY 2018 rose to ¥107.7 billion. Overview The agency's Cultural Affairs Division disseminates information about the arts within Japan and internationally, and the Cultural Properties Protection Division protects the nation's cultural heritage. The Cultural Affairs Division is concerned with such areas as art and culture promotion, art copyrights, and improvements in the national language. It also supports both national and local arts and cultural festivals, and it funds traveling cultural events in music, theater, dance, art exhibitions, and film-making. Special prizes are offered to encourage young artists and established practitioners, and some grants are given each year to enable them to train abroad. The agency funds national museums of modern art in Kyoto and Tokyo and The National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piccoma
Piccoma ( ja, ピッコマ, Pikkoma) is a Japanese webtoon subscription service that is available on smartphones, tablets, and personal computers. It was developed and released by Kakao piccoma Corp., the Japanese subsidiary of Kakao. Service When the service was first launched, it offered a regular model of buying each individual manga and volume similar to other online shops but it has since moved to adopt the webtoon model where a user can purchase individual chapters and wait 24 hours to read some for free. Korean webtoons that are offered on Kakao's services (Daum Webtoon & KakaoPage) are offered through Piccoma in Japanese. Kakao Japan announced that it will start offering original Japanese, Korean, and Chinese webtoons for Piccoma in the summer of 2018. Kakao Japan changed its name to Kakao Piccoma Corporation in Nov. 2021 in 2018 they founded the manga award "Piccoma AWARD" in November 2021, it announced its expansion in Europe and North America, and in September of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss (Japanese Magazine)
is a monthly Japanese ''josei'' manga magazine published by Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ..., with a circulation reported at 81,870 in 2015. The magazine is headquartered in Tokyo. History and profile ''Kiss'' was first published in 1992 as a monthly magazine, and later switched to a bimonthly release until early 2013 when it switched back to a monthly publication. Serializations Current * (September 10, 2008) (issue 18, 2008) * ( Risa Ito) (1998) * (March 25, 2009) (issue 7, 2009) * ''My Lovesick Life as a ’90s Otaku'' (2021) Past * * * * * * ''SatoShio'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiss (Magazine) 1992 establishments in Japan Monthly manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korea Herald
''The Korea Herald'' is a leading English-language daily newspaper founded in 1953 and published in Seoul, South Korea. The editorial staff is composed of Korean and international writers and editors, with additional news coverage drawn from international news agencies such as the Associated Press. ''The Korea Herald'' is operated by Herald Corporation. Herald Corporation also publishes ''The Herald Business'', a Korean-language business daily, ''The Junior Herald'', an English weekly for teens, ''The Campus Herald'', a Korean-language weekly for university students. Herald Media is also active in the country's booming English as a foreign language sector, operating a chain of hagwons as well as an English village. ''The Korea Herald'' is a member of the Asia News Network. History ''The Korean Republic'' ''The Korea Herald'' began in August 1953 as ''The Korean Republic'', a 4-page tabloid English-language daily. In 1958, ''The Korean Republic'' published its fifth anniversary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungeishunjū
is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine ''Bungeishunjū''. The company was founded by Kan Kikuchi in 1923. It grants the annual Akutagawa Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan, as well as the annual Naoki Prize for popular novelists. It also granted (from 1955 to 2001) the annual Bungeishunjū Manga Award for achievement in the manga and illustration fields. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company publishes , the weekly , and the sports magazine ''Number'', which represent public opinion of literary, political, and sport-journalistic culture, respectively. The ''Bunshun'', in particular, has come to be known for litigation involving freedom of speech issues, particularly alleged privacy violations and defamation; see, for example, Mitsuo Kagawa. List of magazines The magazines published by Bungeishunjū include: * (published monthly) * (published monthly) * (published weekly) * (monthly literary issue) * (women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukibana No Tora
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura. It is the story of Uesugi Kenshin, and tackles a theory that the historical figure was a woman. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Hibana'' from March 2015 to August 2017, when the manga ceased its publication, and it was then serialized in ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'' from January 2018 to October 2020. Its chapters were collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes. Publication ''Yukibana no Tora'', written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura, tells the story of Uesugi Kenshin, and tackles a theory that the historical figure was a woman. The manga was serialized Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Hibana'' from March 6, 2015, to August 7, 2017, when the magazine ceased its publication. Originally, it was planned that the manga would be transferred to ''Monthly Big Comic Spirits'', however, it was later reported that it would be moved to ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'', starting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodansha
is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'', as well as the more literary magazines ''Gunzō'', ''Shūkan Gendai'', and the Japanese dictionary ''Nihongo Daijiten''. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1910, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation. History Seiji Noma founded Kodansha in 1910 as a spin-off of the ''Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai'' (, "Greater Japan Oratorical Society") and produced the literary magazine ''Yūben'' () as its first publication. The name ''Kodansha'' (taken from ''Kōdan Club'' (), a now-defunct magazine published by the company) originated in 1911 when the publisher formally merged with the ''Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai''. The company has used its current legal name since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics (manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan. Shogakukan is headquartered in the Shogakukan Building in Hitotsubashi, part of Kanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, near the Jimbocho book district. The corporation also has the other two companies located in the same ward. International operations In the United States Shogakukan, along with Shueisha, owns Viz Media, which publishes manga from both companies in the United States. Shogakukan's licensing arm in North America was ShoPro Entertainment; it was merged into Viz Media in 2005. Shogakukan's production arm is Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (previously Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.) In March 2010 it was announced that Shogakukan would partner with the American comics publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daijisen
The is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan in 1995 and 1998. It was designed as an "all-in-one" dictionary for native speakers of Japanese, especially high school and university students. History Shogakukan intended for the to directly compete with Iwanami's popular desktop dictionary, which was a bestseller through three editions (1955, 1969 and 1983). The followed upon the success of two other competitors, Sanseido's ("Great forest of words", 1988, 1995, 2006) and Kōdansha's color-illustrated ("Great dictionary of Japanese", 1989, 1995). All of these dictionaries weigh around and have about 3000 pages. The 1st edition of the (1995) included over 220,000 entries and 6000 all-color illustrations and photographs. The chief editor was also chief editor of the directly-competing dictionary. Other editors included , , and . Shogakukan also released a CD-ROM version (1997) of the 1st edition. The "enlarged and revised" edition (1998) was more of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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