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Movie star and producer Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Aviator) told MTV's Splash Page that his Appian Way production company is waiting for the final script draft for the live-action film version of Katsuhiro...

Judge Hiroyuki Sat? of the Kyoto District Court compared anime file-sharing to "distributing bread that was shoplifted from a supermarket" on Monday in the trial of one of three men accused of uploading anime with the Share program without...

The Japanese government's group in charge of copyright reform is proposing the addition of fair-use clauses similar to those found in the United States Copyright Law. The current Japanese Copyright Law requires permission from the copyright...

Bandai Namco Holdings has announced on Friday that it will combine its two video/audio content subsidiaries in America -- Bandai Entertainment and Bandai Visual USA -- on July 1 and liquidate Bandai Visual USA. The company's announcement still...

Anime Expo has announced that anime theme song singer Yoko Ishida will return to the July 3-6 convention at Los Angeles, California. Ishida sang theme songs for over a dozen anime series, including Sailor Moon R and S ("Maiden's...

The Japanese government has "appointed" Hello Kitty as its tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong on Monday. Japan previously named 11 individuals (including the pop music duo Puffy AmiYumi) as tourism ambassadors, but Sanrio's feline...

The North American distributor Bandai Entertainment has posted the trailer for its June 3 DVD release of the AIKa R-16 anime. The three-episode project is a prequel to the risque AIKa comedy anime that Central Park Media once released and Bandai...

On Friday, the Kyoto District Court found Masato Nakatsuji guilty distributing Clannad anime images with a hidden malicious program on the Winny file-sharing network and sentenced him to two years in prison along with a three-year suspended sentence....