National Anime Day in Japan
National Anime Day in Japan is held on April 15. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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While the first commercialised Japanese cartoons emerged in 1917, the style now associated with anime was first produced by cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka in the 1960s.
National Anime Day was first coined in 1975, with a convention in Tokyo attended by just 700 participants. Nowadays, the Anime Expo in Japan, AnimeJapan, attracts around 115,500 participants across a weekend. New cartoons, games and comics are often released around the time of the annual convention.
Conventions take place across Asia, the US and the UK, with fans dressing up as their favourite characters and showing off the latest and most popular anime creations.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
The first day of Takayama Spring Festival on April 14 (Takayama, Gifu, Japan);
Black Day on April 14 (South Korea, Japan, Taiwan. An unofficial holiday celebrated annually by single people - unmarried or unmarried people);
Children's Day in Japan on April 17
Invention Day in Japan on April 18
Post Day in Japan on April 20
Game Designers' Day on April 27
Restoration of Sovereignty Day in Japan on April 28 (主権回復の日 Shuken kaifuku no hi - It marks the end of the American occupation of Japan on 28 April 1952)