Japan

Japan
Continent	Asia

Japan is an island country located in East Asia.

Appearances

TV series

• Laff-A-Lympics
  • 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
  • 1.7 "The Demon of the Dugout"
  • 1.16 "The Ransom of Scooby Chief"
• The Thing
  • 1.9B "The Day the Ring Didn't Do a Thing" (mentioned)
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
  • 3.7 "Freak Show" (mentioned)
  • 4.21 "Boatshow"
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
  • 1.1B "Monkey See, Doggie Do"
  • 2.5A "Dream Scheme"
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.5 "Shoyu Weenie"
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?
  • 2.1 "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo"
• Mike Tyson Mysteires
  • 2.7 "A Plaintive Wail" (mentioned)
  • 3.14 "My Favorite Mystery" (mentioned)
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
  • 1.7 "Bye Bye, Bellum" (photo)
  • 3.6 "Save the Date" (poster)
  • 3.12 "Take Your Kids to Dooms Day" (photo)
  • 3.25 "Lights Out!" (mentioned)
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
  • 1.15 "The Sword, the Fox and the Scooby-Doo!"
  • 1.20 "Too Many Dummies!" (mentioned)
• Birdgirl
  • 1.2 "ShareBear"
  • 2.1 "The Wanky" (indirectly mentioned)
  • 2.6 "The S.I.M.M." (billboard)
• Tom and Jerry in New York
  • 1.8D "Kabuki Cat"

Movies

• Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
• Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
• Top Cat Begins
• Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob (mentioned)

Specials

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

Shorts

• Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips
  • Around the World in 79 Days: 1.2 "A Japanese Fishing Village"
• Tom and Jerry
  • 1.69 On a Roll

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 artist Kazuhiko Katō (known by his pen name, 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.