The Japan International MANGA Award was founded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the aim of rewarding MANGA creators who contribute to the spread of MANGA culture overseas and international cultural exchanges through MANGA. Applications are now acceptable for the Thirteenth Japan International MANGA Award.
The conditions to apply this Award are as follows;
1. Eligible MANGA works need to be composed of more than 16 pages. Both published and unpublished works are eligible, EXCLUDING the past winning works of Japan International Manga Awards.
2. Eligible MANGA works should be the ones which have been produced with the past three years (2016-2019) from the date of application.
3. Eligible MANGA works must be submitted in printed form. (Submission of date might be required later on.)
4. Overseas publishing companies can apply to the Japan International MANGA Award, upon confirmation from the MANGA artists of submitting their work.
5. Either the comic artist or story writer of the submitted work has to be a foreign national. Also the representative who will participate in the invitation program given to the Gold/Silver Award winners must be a foreign national.
6. Only one work may be submitted per applicant. Only one work may be accepted under on title (or series). In case that a collection of short stories is to be applied, only one story will be accepted for examination. Duplicate entries will be invalid.
7. For the purpose of publicity, the MANGA Award Executive Committee may upload the winner’s MANGA work (partially) on its website upon obtaining approval from the artists.
Prizes for the Award will be;
1. The Gold Award of the Japan International MANGA Award will be given to the best work and the Silver Award to three other excellent works.
2. The Gold Award and the Silver Award winners will be invited to Japan on the occasion of the award ceremony for around 10 days as a supplementary prize (the fine work winner are not entitled)
Application period will be from April 8, 2019 to June 14, 2019 (application forms must arrive by this date)
Complete guideline for application and entry forms are available from the Embassy of Japan’s website at https://www.ton.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_en/b_000022.html and from the Embassy of Japan in Nuku’alofa.
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For further enquires please contact: Ms. Chizuru Konishi, Administration Officer Embassy of Japan in Tonga. Level 5, National Reserve Bank of Tonga Building / Telephone: 22-221 / Fax 27-025