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The Boy and the Heron (Japanese: 君たちはどう生きるか, Hepburn: Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka, lit. ' How Do You [a] Live? ') is a 2023 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
The novel appears in one important scene of the Studio Ghibli animated film, also titled How Do You Live? in Japan, but released internationally as The Boy and the Heron (2023). The film, which also has a fifteen year old male protagonist, also deals glancingly with bullying and has existential themes, but is not an adaptation or related to it ...
Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. [15] [16] Japanese people constitute 97.4% of the population of the country of Japan. [1] Worldwide, approximately 125 million people are of Japanese descent, making them one of the largest ethnic groups.
The Japanese diaspora and its individual members, known as Nikkei (Japanese: 日系, IPA:) or as Nikkeijin (Japanese: 日系人, IPA: [ɲikkeꜜːʑiɴ]), comprise the Japanese emigrants from Japan (and their descendants) residing in a country outside Japan.
Japan has historically been one of the world's most generous donors to refugee relief and resettlement programs overseas. [23] In 2014 it was the world's 2nd largest financial contributor to UNHCR programs. [24] Japanese diplomat Sadako Ogata served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991 to 2000.
Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional ...
The Japanese in Hawaii (simply Japanese Hawaiians or “Local Japanese”, rarely Kepanī) are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii. At their height in 1920, they constituted 43% of Hawaii's population. [ 2 ]
The list includes Issei (一世, "first generation") Japanese-born immigrants from Japan, and those who are multigenerational Japanese Americans.Cities considered to have significant Japanese American populations are large U.S. cities or municipalities with a critical mass of at least 1.0% of the total urban population; medium-sized cities with a critical mass of at least 2.0% of the total ...