Shogakukan Inc., in a rare move as a publisher, will allow people in the United States to read English versions of "manga" comic stories on the Internet at the same time as it publishes the original printed versions in Japan. The quick distribution of the "authorized" English version is aimed at discouraging illegal replicas of Japanese comics being made mainly in the United States and Europe, ...

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'Manga' publisher airs Net English version (The Japan Times)

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