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Nikkei Asia
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Nikkei Asia
China's anime, comic and video game IP market swells to $83bn
Two cosplayers pose for a photo at the Bilibili World convention July 11 in Shanghai. (Photo by Shunsuke Tabeta) TOMOKO WAKASUGI and SHUNSUKE TABETA SHANGHAI -- China's market for 2D character fandom has doubled in five years and spans an estimated 500 million people, with the growth fueled by intellectual property imported from Japan and created at home. The Bilibili World convention opened in Shanghai on Friday. Billed as a "carnival" for anime, comics and gaming fans, the event is hosted by China's anime streaming giant Bilibili.
Nikkei Asia
11-07-2025
- Automotive
- Nikkei Asia
Volkswagen to shut joint China plant with SAIC Motor
The Nanjing plant was built in 2008 and has a maximum annual production capacity of 360,000 vehicles. © AP EIKI HAYASHI and TOMOKO WAKASUGI FRANKFURT, Germany/SHANGHAI -- Volkswagen will close a Chinese vehicle assembly plant operated jointly with state-owned SAIC Motor in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, as the German automaker tries reversing a slide by restructuring in the market that accounts for roughly 30% of its deliveries. The Nanjing plant was built in 2008 and built such gasoline-powered vehicles as the flagship Passat and budget brand Skoda's Superb. It has a maximum output capacity of 360,000 units a year. But its utilization rate had fallen because of declining sales, and production was later halted.
Nikkei Asia
25-06-2025
- Nikkei Asia
Japanese schoolchildren in China down 11% a year after knife attack
Police in Suzhou patrol near the crime scene on June 24. (Photo by Tomoko Wakasugi) TOMOKO WAKASUGI SUZHOU, China -- Enrollment at Japanese schools in China has declined more than 10% since a knife attack here a year ago, underscoring persistent safety concerns among Japanese expatriates. On June 24, 2024, a man stabbed a Japanese woman and her preschool-aged son at a bus stop near a Japanese school in Suzhou. Chinese school bus attendant Hu Youping tried to intervene but was herself fatally stabbed, dying at age 54.
Nikkei Asia
24-06-2025
- Nikkei Asia
Japanese students in China down 11% a year after knife attack
Police in Suzhou could be seen on patrol near the crime scene in Suzhou on June 24. (Photo by Tomoko Wakasugi) TOMOKO WAKASUGI SUZHOU, China -- Enrollment at Japanese schools in China has declined more than 10% since a knife attack here a year ago, underscoring persistent safety concerns among Japanese expatriates. On June 24, 2024, a man stabbed a Japanese woman and her preschool-aged son at a bus stop near a Japanese school in Suzhou. Chinese school bus attendant Hu Youping tried to intervene but was herself fatally stabbed, dying at age 54.
