1.   But better still was the row of young men reading manga, those phone-book-thick Japanese comics whose brand of pornography can be especially vile.

2.   Japanese comics and cartoons have developed big followings in other parts of Asia and in Europe, and cult followings in the United States.

3.   Japanese comics, known as manga, are also appearing in English in the United States.

4.   Kan hired a Japanese artist to draw the strip, whose characters have the big round eyes characteristic of Japanese comics.

5.   One reason Japanese comics and animation get away with sex and violence is that they are not just for children.

6.   He called himself Dr. Kiriko after a dark-cloaked figure in Japanese comics, and welcomed his troubled supplicants with promises of fast relief.

7.   The number is double for popular Japanese comics like Dora Emon and Sailor Moon.