A Sailor Moon revival? Yes, that’s exactly what Kodansha are doing, and in a rather grand way.

Kodansha will be seeing its first change of president in 24 years come this April.

Real-life heroic deeds resurrect the popularity of an old manga series, and do a lot of good while they’re at it.

Originally conceived as a spin-off of Weekly Morning magazine in 2006, Morning 2 is following its predecessor to iOS and Android devices.

Inspired by the Tiger Mask’s heroics, people in Japan have been making donations to welfare centres and orphanages under his name.

Ace Attorney, Monster Hunter and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex manga series are getting English publications.

37 Japanese publishers are collaborating to set up a joint online manga portal for North American distribution.

Parent publisher Random House are transferring their Del Rey manga licenses back to original publisher, Kodansha.

The coalition believe that their battle isn’t necessarily with scanlators, but with “scanlation aggregators.”

The manga, handled by Yukiko Seike, began serialization in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon magazine on Tuesday.

Masaaki Hagino, president of Voyager, an e-book development company, revealed that 30% of Kodansha manga adapted by his company into apps for iTunes is rejected for censorship reasons.

As the e-book market grows in Japan, Kodansha and 30 other publishers are voicing concerns over how the digital model could affect print publishing.

Japanese super-publisher Kodansha recently updated their YouTube page with videos of two of their creators hard at work.