{"id":2318506,"date":"2026-03-08T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2318506"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:03:58","slug":"celebrating-the-broad-appeal-of-u-s-japan-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrating-the-broad-appeal-of-u-s-japan-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Broad Appeal of U.S.-Japan Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by JUN NAGATA \/ Rafu Shimpo<\/em>
From left: Akemi Look, co-chair of JX (Japan Crossover), Bill Watanabe president of the Little Tokyo Community Impact Fund, Yosuke Kodaka, president of the Aniplex of America Inc., Kosei Murota of the Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles and JX Co-chair Kaitlyn Chu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Consul General Murota enjoys a fun moment with comedian Atsuko Okatsuka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

JX \u201926, an evening gala honoring the visionary leaders and companies shaping the future of the U.S.\u2013Japan entertainment industry, was held March 3 at Soho Warehouse in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Co-hosted by JX (Japan Crossover) \u2013 the Entertainment Subcommittee of the LA Next Generation Japanese American Leaders Initiative \u2013 and the Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles, the event also featured a conversation titled \u201cThe Meteoric Rise of Japanese Anime in Global Entertainment and Hollywood,\u201d moderated by Yosuke Kodaka, president of Aniplex of America Inc.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source rafu.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos by JUN NAGATA \/ Rafu Shimpo From left: Akemi Look, co-chair of JX (Japan Crossover), Bill Watanabe president of the Little Tokyo Community Impact Fund, Yosuke Kodaka, president of the Aniplex of America Inc., Kosei Murota of the Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles and JX Co-chair Kaitlyn Chu. Consul General Murota enjoys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2318507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[384370,449273,449274],"class_list":["post-2318506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-atsuko-okatsuka","tag-japan-crossover","tag-jx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Celebrating-the-Broad-Appeal-of-US-Japan-Entertainment.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318508,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318506\/revisions\/2318508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}