“He doesn’t feel that way at all,” Studio Ghibli executive Junichi Nishioka said in September 2023. “He is currently working ...

One Hayao Miyazaki film has a scene which took over a year to be animated, yet it lost the Oscar to Frozen for its wide ...

Those aged 18 to 24 years have had the largest reduction in smoking prevalence (15.9 percentage points) between 2011 (25.7%) and 2023 (9.8%). Around 5.1 million adults aged 16 years and over (9.8%) ...

Hayao Miyazaki (Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned ...

Long acknowledged as Japan's preeminent animator and director, Hayao Miyazaki remained a cult figure to American devotees of "manga" (Japanese comic books) and "anime" (Japanese animated features ...

On average, a single cigarette takes 20 minutes off a person’s life, according to a new study published at University College London. To put that into perspective, a pack of 20 cigarettes can ...

We’re like the people trying to figure it out down in Iron Town. Except we’re not really taking as much care of the sex workers and the people with leprosy.-Neil Gaiman Hayao Miyazaki‘s disgust for ...

I for one welcome a world in which our flying robotic overlords look like impossibly cute fantastic creatures from a Hayao Miyazaki movie.

Quitting smoking offers immediate and long-term health advantages. It reduces the risk of many diseases and enhances life expectancy. Improvements in heart rate, blood pressure, lung function, and ...

"The new law is excessive in my opinion. I agree not to smoke indoors, not to smoke near an elderly person or a child, but banning smoking outdoors for me somewhat limits a person's freedom," one ...

It was such a relief when Hayao Miyazaki announced he was un-retiring. While it was far from his first attempt at retirement, the announcement that came after the premiere of The Wind Rises seemed ...