Miyazaki visited the tsunami-hit area of northeast Japan four months after the disaster to screen his films to local children.
Like many other rural towns and cities in northeast Japan, jobs started to vanish when the economy stalled in the early 1990s.
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The natural and nuclear disasters in northeast Japan have compounded these problems and made more urgent the need to adopt and implement remedies.
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The aim is for each of the thousands of school children who were affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit northeast Japan on 11 March 2011, to receive a postcard as an act of solidarity.
Couple all this with the American plans for a theater missile defense system that would cover most of Northeast Asia - Japan, South Korea and Taiwan - and you can see cause for Beijing's concern.
It was centered on Aomori and Iwate prefectures on the northeast end of Honshu, Japan's main island.
"Certainly, they are testing us and using the opportunity created by the Chinese diversion, " said Narushige Michishita, a Northeast Asia security expert at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
"Mr. Abe is seen as being a more assertive Japanese leader, but they may wonder what he will do when faced with two such challenges, " said Narushige Michishita, a Northeast Asia security expert at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
To say that Northeast and East Asia Japan, China, the Koreas, and Russia, with the U.S. as the non-regional but fully engaged player is in strategic military and political transition may be to state the obvious.
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September 18th is the anniversary of an incident in 1931 that led to Japan's occupation of northeast China.
The Obama strategy in the region seems to be aimed at containing Chinese ambitions with an arc of well-armed allies stretching from Australia and Singapore in Southeast Asia to Japan and South Korea in Northeast Asia.
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Outside of the Northeast Corridor, and unlike in Europe and Japan, only a few city pairs in the U.S. are close enough to allow the necessary speed and convenience.
As you heard in my opening remarks, the forces that are forward in the Western Pacific are, by and large, biased to Northeast Asia, contained in -- or laid down in Japan and South Korea.
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But in Japan, nearly two years after the March 2011 tsunami flattened the northeast coast, few homes have been rebuilt.
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