For a really interesting, semi-true story about a Japanese warplane engineer in WWII, I highly recommend watching *The Wind Rises&. Probably one of Miyazaki's f

For a really interesting, semi-true story about a Japanese warplane engineer in WWII, I highly recommend watching *The Wind Rises&. Probably one of Miyazaki's finest works (although that's just my opinion). It gives you some sense of the sense of the nationalistic feelings in Japan as they entered WWII, and the tremendous pressures their country faced to prove themselves.