ERIC ED478732: Japanese Comic Illustrations and Children's Picture/Illustrated Books of East Asia.

This paper examines the influence of Japanese comic illustrations on children's books in countries in East Asia. It has become increasingly obvious that recent children's books in countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, as well as China and Malaysia/Indonesia contain illustrations with some features of the Japanese comic illustrations. This influence is primarily due to Japanese popular culture that pervades...

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