Japan

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Japan
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Continent Asia

Japan is an island country located in East Asia.

Appearances

TV series

Movies

Specials

Shorts

History

Behind the scenes

  • A hamburger shop in Fuji, Japan is named after Baba Looey.
  • The cast of The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan was retooled into a Japanese family instead of a Chinese family.
  • Wacky Races, Tom and Jerry, and The Powerpuff Girls are the three most popular Hanna-Barbera cartoons in Japan.
  • Some Hanna-Barbera artists, such as Willie Ito, Steve Nakagawa, and Iwao Takamoto, were from Japan.
  • Some 1980s episodes of The Jetsons were outsourced to Toei Animation, a prolific Japanese animation studio.
  • American animator Davis Doi created a piece of artwork as a thank you gift to Japanese manga creator Kazuhiko Katō (also known as Monkey Punch) — the creator of the Lupin III manga — depicting Barney Rubble meeting up with the titular character in his Fred Flintstone disguise.
  • Frankenstein Jr. is thought to have similarities to Gigantor, a Japanese anime known as Tetsujin 28-gō (鉄人28号) in its country of origin.

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