Born OTD in 1941, Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, cartoonist, author, manga artist & co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki.

Born OTD in 1941, Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, cartoonist, author, manga artist & co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki.

Based on the young-adult novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle reflects on a wondrous time when … More

“The fiery, beguiling stories in Taeko Kōno’s collection Toddler Hunting and Other Stories, translated by Lucy North, are vertiginous tightrope walks between two planes of reality.”

“The fiery, beguiling stories in Taeko Kōno’s collection Toddler Hunting and Other Stories, translated by Lucy North, are vertiginous tightrope walks between two planes of reality.”

… These stories have no interest in closure, not even oblique closure. Like those of many other good short stories, … More

OTD in 1945, America detonated a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima instantly killing an estimated 70,000 people, including 20,000 Japanese combatants and 2,000 Korean slave laborers.

OTD in 1945, America detonated a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima instantly killing an estimated 70,000 people, including 20,000 Japanese combatants and 2,000 Korean slave laborers.

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new … More