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Hayao Miyazaki Does Volunteer Work at 'Totoro's Forest'

On Sunday, anime director My Neighbor Totoro film. The volunteers cleared the weeds and other materials that prevented some of the natural vegetation from growing.

Developers had planned to make a nearby patch of trees into a housing complex, but presented about 73 million yen (US$620,000) to the city of Higashimurayama to preserve the patch.

The Fuchi no Mori area spans 5,700 square meters (1.4 acres, or just slightly bigger than the size of an American football field). The artists from the American computer animation studio Pixar and other studios opened last year.

Source: NHK

Image © 1988 Nibariki, Ghibli