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TV Japan aired Doraemon in its original Japanese version without subtitles in the US and Canada from May 2012 until March 2014. The U.S. dub of Doraemon started airing on 7 July 2014 on Disney XD in the US, Disney XD aired a few episodes of the show in Canada in the summer of 2015 for two weeks before pulling it.

On 14 November 2008, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 was screened in its original Japanese version with English subtitles in the Washington, D.C. area, marking the first time Doraemon ever made an appearance in the United States.

Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of Stand by Me Doraemon at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 24 October 2014.

Foreign streaming service Netflix released an English dub of Stand by Me Doraemon 2 in Japan on 6 November 2021 featuring the return of the voice cast of the English dub of the 2005 anime. Netflix also released the dub around the world on 24 December 2021. In North America, Viz Media is the master licensor for the series, but like all other Fujiko Fujio properties, it never had an English release. Back when the company was known as Viz Communications, they had plans to publish the manga in English in the early 1990s. But, due to the large amount of crude humor, and perverted moments that would have to be censored (one example being the numerous bath scenes featuring the female character, Shizuka), the license was eventually removed.

The Doraemon Exhibition originally presented at the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum was heading overseas for the first time. The "Meet! Doraemon" exhibit was shown in at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The exhibit opened on 15 February-20 April 2014.

Telemundo aired the Latin American Spanish dub of the 1979 anime making this the first time the 1979 series could be seen on American airwaves from 2001 to 2004.

• 1979 Series: 11 October 2003, on Caracol TV

• 1979 Series: 1 April 2002, on Ecuavisa
• 2005 Series: 2 March 2015, on Ecuavisa

• 1979 Series: 2 September 2019, on Movistar Play
• 2005 Series: 10 December 2014, on Netflix

Disney India was banned in Pakistan and Bangladesh due to the non-availability of English and local dubs of content including Doraemon. The channel was similarly removed from air in Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

Later on, a Bengali dub was brought by Ddhoni Chitra Ltd. for episodes of the 1979 anime and has been airing on the cable channel Asian TV since 1 April 2014.

RCTI also has aired this series in short-lived airtimes such as every day in mid-2000s and on Saturday in early 2000s. In 2018, the airtime was extended to one hour (from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM on Sunday), but later in early 2021 it was reduced to original (30 minutes) and the timeslot moved to 8:30 AM. On 14 April 2024, the timeslot reverted to the original (8:00 AM).

There are some important things about Doraemon's airing in Indonesia. During its early broadcast (mainly from 1990-1991), RCTI sometimes stopped Doraemon's broadcasting, however this was not continued after 1991. Doraemon is also the first Japanese cartoon to be aired in Indonesia (during this time, RCTI mostly aired US cartoons). Doraemon's airing in Indonesia also had differences with original Japanese version: the title card, especially from 1979 version are edited and replaced, and because of advertisements, sometimes RCTI cut the length of episodes (for example, from 10 minutes to 5-8 minutes). From 2011-2014, despite having officially aired the 2005 version, sometimes RCTI still aired the 1979 version albeit with changes of title card and voiceover.

In addition to original series, RCTI sometimes aired Doraemon movies in morning, on weekdays. This series has high ratings: on one occasion (November 2017), Doraemon's rating was higher than soap operas, a staple for many television stations in Indonesia.

2005 series: Now broadcast on Valentine's Day 2016 was new telecast by Mediacorp Channel 8 with HDTV version. There are options of dual sound (Swedish and French) available and only dubbed in Malay (English dubbed) with Singapore Mandarin subtitles. The Doraemon manga has been published in American English in print by Shogakukan Asia, using the same translation as the manga in United States of America.

From 2013, Doraemon movies were licensed in cinema theaters. The Stand By Me Doraemon film aired on 1 June 2015 on K+ NS.

102 early episodes (each one including 3 segments) from the 1979 series were dubbed in Italian and aired first on Rai 2 and then on local broadcasters, featuring the theme songs Il gatto Doraemon sung by Oliver Onions and La canzone di Doraemon (a cover of the Japanese theme "Boku Doraemon") sung by Il Coro I Nostri Figli di Nora Orlandi. From 2003 Italia 1 started airing most of the 1979 series with a new dub and the theme song titled Doraemon, sung by Cristina D'Avena, enjoying massive success. Since the 2010s the 1979 series was moved to Boing (Italy); the 2005 series started airing in 2014 alongside the previous one.

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• Doraemon (1986)
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