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Food and Drink during the Japanese New Year

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Japan manga publisher starts English version online

Submitted by zurui on April 27, 2009 – 10:45 am3 Comments

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Japan Today reported: “Shogakukan Inc, in a rare move as a Japanese publisher, has started to allow people in the United States to read English versions of ‘‘manga’’ comic stories on the Internet at the same time as it publishes the original printed versions in Japan. The quick distribution of the ‘‘authorized’’ English version is aimed at discouraging wrongdoers from making illegal replicas of Japanese comics mainly in the United States and Europe, the publishing house said.”

You can check out Shogakukan’s ‘‘Rin-ne’’ by popular manga artist Rumiko Takahashi on the VIZ Media LLC based in San Francisco, here.

http://son-of-gadfly-on-the-wall.blogspot.com/ Jun Okumura

Sadly, it is not available in Japan. Think Hulu.
http://www.sirenvisual.com.au Mark

I couldn’t get anything from clicking on the link too… and I’m in Australia.
http://www.blacktokyo.com zurui

try clicking on the link again. i added a new one.