YUFU, Oita Prefecture--Fans of a popular cyber character promoting a Japanese-style inn here are agonizing over the news that its creator was reported missing in torrential rains that hit the ...

HITA, Oita Prefecture--Fans of the wildly popular "Attack on Titan" manga who make a pilgrimage to author Hajime Isayama's hometown here can now feel the immense scale of the epic story.