Manga and anime styles and content are reflected in games, fashion, and character goods. Scholars now study Tezuka’s role in laying the foundations of Japan’s “soft power”—Japan’s …

Recommended citation: Yuki Tanaka, "War and Peace in the Art of Tezuka Osamu: The humanism of his epic manga," The Asia-Pacific Journal, 38-1-10, September 20, 2010. Click …

Dedicated fans of Tezuka Osamu’s imaginative and varied work, as well as those deeply steeped in the history of Japanese pop culture, will undoubtedly relish this book.

He made many studies of animals, especially insects. “Osamu” was his real name, but he changed the way he wrote it in Japanese by adding the character for “insect.” According to …

Suggestions for other grade levels: Lower grade levels could listen to the teacher tell about OSAMU and look through manga borrowed from the public library. Teacher could have a …

That same year, the manga researcher Takeuchi Osamu, who already edited a book on the ―God of Comics‖ in 1989, also published a detailed biography of Tezuka (2008). 2009 was …

[This is a four-page article covering two spreads: pages 280-281, and then pages 284-285. See after the text for illustrations... and the special contents of the intervening 282-283 spread. …