TOKYO — Shigeru Mizuki, an influential and widely popular Japanese cartoonist with a talent for humanizing mythical monsters and dissecting the monstrous side of humanity, died here on Monday. He was ...

And now a remembrance of an iconic comic book artist in Japan. Shigeru Mizuki was known for drawing a little boy with a shaggy haircut and one eye, a little boy who is also a ghost. The character is ...

Shigeru Mizuki was actually born before the legendary Osamu Tezuka, believe it or not. He is a man that truly almost fits the American beer commercial tagline The Most Interesting Man in the World ...

Renowned Japanese manga illustrator, folklorist, and pop-culture icon Mizuki Shigeru (水木しげる) died on Monday, November 30, 2015. He was 93. In many ways, Mizuki represented the pacifism and humanism of ...

In Japan, history is still divided according to the reign of the emperors. This year, for instance, is Heisei 26 — the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Akihito, who will be posthumously renamed ...

J-pop artist Nana Mizuki shared the video for "Knock U down," from her new album, "CANNONBALL RUNNING," and clip of live footage from March's "NANA MUSIC LABORATORY 2019" concert at Ehime's Himegin… ...

One of Japan's most beloved illustrators has died. Shigeru Mizuki always loved to draw, but it wasn't until he was in his 40s that he began to publish his most important work. And now a remembrance of ...