Love Ghibli? Meet Kurosuke, the man who just might have the most amazing Ghibli collection in the world!
Needless to say, the magical animated works of Studio Ghibli have long enchanted fans around the world. But today, we’d like to introduce to you one very special Ghibli fan in particular.
Meet Kurosuke, who at first glance may not seem like an exceptional Ghibli enthusiast. In fact, we’d say he looks like an average 40-year-old man who happens to work as a production operator. But take one step inside his apartment, and you’ll immediately see that his home and the way he lives is far from ordinary. You see, his entire home isfilled with countless Ghibli memorabilia, and what’s more, most of them are rare, not-for-sale items. RocketNews24 visited him for a personal interview, and of course, to see his amazing Ghibli collection!
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39,000
Number of unidentified photographs gathered after the March 11 tsunami that a preservation center in Miyagi was forced to discard when the facility shut down last month
29
Percentage drop in sales at McDonald’s restaurants in Japan in March, compared to the same month last year
14
Number of months that McDonald’s Japan has reported falling sales
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A geology professor at Tohoku University says earthquakes in northeast Japan are occurring 100 times more frequently than they did before the March 11 disaster.
Officials at the farm ministry say Japan’s food self-sufficiency ratio—the share of calories produced out of total calories consumed—was 73 percent in 1965 but is now just 39 percent.
In response, authorities have lowered their self-sufficiency targets to 45 percent from 50 percent.
Researchers at Chiba University believe a someiyoshino cherry tree planted 100 years ago in Ueno park may be the progenitor of all such trees in Japan.
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Vanishing communities find themselves facing shortage of leaders
BY REIJI YOSHIDA
STAFF WRITER
At a glance, the town of Kanna in southern Gunma Prefecture looks like just another beautiful rural community, surrounded by deep mountain forests stretching along the Kanna River, which is touted as having some of the clearest water in the Kanto region.
But a quiet crisis looms in this town, one that may foreshadow the fate of hundreds of other aging rural communities across the country. With little prospect of a vibrant future, they are also facing a shortage of leaders running in local elections who are eager to save their hometowns.
Of Kanna’s 2,139 inhabitants, 1,186 — or 55 percent — were aged 65 or older as of April 1. The community is predicted to “vanish,” with few children being born here and most young people moving away.
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