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The Japanese government announced Tuesday it will award its first "Nobel Prize of Manga" in July to comic-book artists living abroad. It's a watershed moment for the island nation, which experts say has been slow to recognize the graphic-novel — or "manga" — industry as an officially sanctioned economic powerhouse.

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