Original Disney Art Found in Chiba

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BBC: Rare Disney work found in Japan
A collection of vintage Disney animation has been discovered in a warehouse at a Japanese university. About 250 pieces, including animation from Disney's first colour short - 1932's Flowers and Trees - were found at Chiba University, near Tokyo. Original sketches, celluloid and background pictures from films such as Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Fantasia and Cinderella were also discovered...The collection travelled to Japan in the early 1960s for exhibitions at department stores and museums. Disney donated the collection to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, which subsequently gave it to an animation scholar at Chiba University for education and research use.

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America returns the favour:

Reuters: Japan's manga legend Osamu Tezuka's early works found

Several of Japanese manga legend Osamu Tezuka's early works have been found at a US university, including a previously lost 16-page comic, a researcher said. Tezuka was considered the pioneer of Japanese manga, which has since won a global following. He is best known for his "Astro Boy" series, which debuted in 1951 featuring a robot boy who flies through the future. The early works were discovered at the University of Maryland's Prange Collection, which stores Japanese print media from 1945-49, when US occupation authorities reviewed all publications for censorship. Tezuka's works found in the collection included three to twelve-frame comic strips he sketched while a medical student in Osaka in western Japan. Researchers also found a 16-page comic called "Hans and Gold Hair," which shows elements of his later work. Tezuka, who died in 1989, drew bulging eyes on his characters, which became distinctive of Japanese manga...more...