The Doraemon series follows the titular blue cat as he travels from the 22nd century to help a ten-year-old schoolboy named Nobita Nobi so his future great-great-grandson, Sewashi Nobi ...

The latest entry in the long-running Doraemon anime franchise, Nobita’s Art World Tales (Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Esekai Monogatari), has taken the Japanese box office by storm in its opening weekend.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. Sewashi, a character from the hugely popular Japanese manga and anime series “Doraemon,” is a distant descendant ...