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January 03, 2005
Miyazaki and Social Change
I was just perusing an entry on WorldChanging this morning titled "Eclectic Tools for Global Youth." The main entry is on a website called Youthxchange, an educational website on sustainable living sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme and UNESCO.
What caught my eye is that there is a page on environmentalism in manga and anime, focusing on Hayao Miyazaki's works. (It looks like they drew from Eri Izawa's earlier online article. However, whoever wrote the Youthxchange site managed to mangle the bit on Doraemon.) The site also includes a link to Nausicaa.net.
So are Miyazaki's films a force for positive social change? Some in UNESCO and UNEP would certainly seem to think so.
Posted by brianruh at January 3, 2005 09:25 AM