{"id":412442,"date":"2026-04-27T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/412442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:48:17","slug":"italian-creatives-find-their-niche-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/412442\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian creatives find their niche in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Italy has long been an enthusiastic market for contemporary Japanese pop culture. Anime was first imported in the late 1970s and has since become a cultural sensation with generational impact.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAt an early age, I was already watching anime every day,\u201d says translator Simona Stanzani, recalling the wave of Japanese media that transformed her youth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stanzani is a leading translator of manga into both Italian and English, and has worked on major titles including \u201cJojo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure,\u201d \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d and \u201cSpy \u00d7 Family,\u201d in addition to subtitling films such as Akira Kurosawa\u2019s \u201cThe Seven Samurai.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy has long been an enthusiastic market for contemporary Japanese pop culture. Anime was first imported in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13913,146,19537,85,46,2971,194728,194729,31126],"class_list":["post-412442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anime","tag-entertainment","tag-expats","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-italy-japan-relations","tag-jojo","tag-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}