Famed director Hayao Miyazaki made a rare public appearance July 13 in Tokyo, where he talked about politics, not animation.
Responding to questions from reporters at his studio, Miyazaki criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies, including moves to relocate a U.S. military base to Okinawa Prefecture and revisit the pacifist postwar Constitution.
In the live-streamed one-hour news conference, Miyazaki said Abe wanted a place in history as the man who reinterpreted the Constitution, "which I think is despicable." (The Japan Times)
アニメ映画監督の宮崎駿氏が記者会見を開き、安倍首相について「憲法解釈を変えた偉大な男として歴史に名前を残したいのだと思うが、愚劣なことだ」と批判した。
The Japan Times ST: July 24, 2015