Renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning fantasy animation film "The Boy and the Heron" has been leading the Chinese box office since debuting April 3, so far raking in some 550 million yuan ($76 million), the official Xinhua News Agency says.
Low-speed electric vehicles modeled after the Cat Bus from Studio Ghibli's anime film "My Neighbor Totoro" are unveiled by the prefectural government and are set to run in a central Japan park housing the "Ghibli Park" theme park.
Ghibli Park, a theme park in central Japan devoted to the world portrayed in the animation movies of Studio Ghibli, opens an area based on its classic 1997 movie "Princess Mononoke" as it marks its first anniversary.