Ghibli Museum is a tourist attraction people have flocked to for more than two decades, but there’s a special homage to the movie My Neighbor Totoro that most people have missed. So, more than 20 years after opening, the Ghibli Museum thought it might share …Read more »
The Ghibli Museum is beloved to many anime fans and has been a big tourism site, but it’s struggling under COVID. Earlier this year the museum asked for financial help and received it, but once again it’s put out a call for help. “Since opening …Read more »
The Ghibli Museum debuted in October of 2001, making this its twentieth anniversary. So of course the museum had to party, and it did so with a celebration of about 1,300 people and a giant Totoro balloon. More than 1,300 people wanted to be part …Read more »
A lot of businesses have been hit hard over the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of those is the Ghibli Museum. The museum has been struggling due to closures and the limitations placed on attendance even while re-opened, so Mitaka City has …Read more »
The Studio Ghibli museum closed its doors back in March to slow the spread of COVID-19, but its break from the public will soon be over. In July, it opened to residents of the town in which it’s based, Mitaka City. Now, with new coronavirus …Read more »
Even if you find yourself in Japan at the moment, there’s no way for you to enjoy the sights and sounds of Mitaka’s Ghibli Museum. Tickets are hard enough to get as it is, but it’s also currently closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic …Read more »
Japan has been taking a lot of measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak in the region, and the latest brings the concerns to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. In an effort to ensure everyone’s safety and prevent further spread, the museum announced that it will …Read more »
Studio Ghibli has a new president as of this Tuesday, with the official appointment of Kiyofumi Nakajima. Formerly the director of the Ghibli Museum, Nakajima takes over for president Koji Hoshino, who will now serve as the company’s chairperson. Both are acting as representative directors …Read more »
Japanese twitter user @33kitta recently posted some screencaps from 2003 film Mei and the Kittenbus, commenting about how hardly anyone seems to have heard of it. He followed up with a poll, to which 88% of 102,000 respondents responded they had no clue of its existence. …Read more »
At this weekend’s Niconico Chokaigi convention in Chiba, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki dropped a couple of Hayao Miyazaki knowledge bombs: one good, the other not so much. First, the good news: Miyazaki’s CG short, "Boro the Caterpillar," which was announced back in 2015, will …Read more »
When Hayao Miyazaki retired in 2013, he mentioned that while he was done with feature filmmaking, he still had plenty of projects up his sleeve, including potential animated shorts for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Miyazaki is making good on that promise, and now …Read more »
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