Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — Oscar-winning Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film in a decade will be released in July next year, its distribution company has said. The 81-year-old Miyazaki, who co-founded celebrated anime house Studio Ghibli, came out of retirement to make the movie, titled “How Do You Live?” It has been in production for years with details kept tightly under wraps, and will now be released in Japan on July 14, according to […]
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‘A turning point’: Japanese fashion after Kenzo, Miyake
by Natsuko FUKUE Agence France Presse Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — At Tokyo’s prestigious Bunka Fashion College, students concentrate in silence that is broken only by the sound of scissors and sewing machines as they strive to emulate the global success of alumni like Kenzo. The loss of greats Kenzo Takada and Issey Miyake heralds the end of a fashion era, decades after Japanese design revolutionised Parisian catwalks in the 1970s and ’80s. And the French […]





