Miyazaki is very much a Japanese postwar boomer, 3 or 4 years really make no difference. He went through the reconstruction period and the following building bu

Miyazaki is very much a Japanese postwar boomer, 3 or 4 years really make no difference. He went through the reconstruction period and the following building bubble, which deeply shaped his relationship with nature (and loss thereof). He grew up with the work of Tezuka Osamu. His work ethic is classic death-march postwar Japanese, graduated in the '60s and went through a traditional career at Toei. Ghibli was founded in 1985, when Japan was still riding the wave of postwar economic growth and the yen were flowing to all sorts of new businesses. He struggled to establish successors in the classic mold of postwar-boomer family-run businesses. He is a boomer, there is no question about it. Whether you find that term offensive is not here nor there.