Saint Seiya Creator Masami Kurumada Sues Over ¥4.6 Billion Missing From His Companies. Who Manages a Manga IP That Outgrew Its Author?

Masami Kurumada, the creator of Saint Seiya, and three of his companies filed suit at the Tokyo District Court on September 2, 2026, alleging that about 4.686 billion yen, roughly 30 million dollars, flowed out to a former manager and associates over six years. According to the plaintiffs, the losses were found not by an internal check but by a tax inquiry. This article explains how manga rights are normally routed through publishers in Japan, why the author-owned model gave one person both the money and the information, and adds Japanese Reactions from X. No court has ruled on any of the allegations.

A Japanese YouTuber Said He Would Not Let Fukushima University Touch Radiation Research. Can Entrance Exam Scores Measure a University’s Research? Japanese Reactions

The Japanese YouTube channel wakatte.TV, which built 770,000 subscribers on mocking universities by entrance exam difficulty, said of radiation research that it would not want Fukushima University touching it. The university's president issued a statement on September 1, 2026 and the channel deleted the video and apologised. This article explains what hensachi actually measures, who staffs the university's radiation research institute, how Japanese law decides which institutions may handle radioactive material, and adds Japanese Reactions from X, where two sitting mayors drove the response.