This highly entertaining business memoir describes what it was like to work for Japan’s premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, and its reigning genius Hayao Miyazaki.
An American’s unique behind-the-scenes look at Japanese business and how the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki were introduced to the world.
Steve Alpert speaks Japanese and Chinese fluently, having lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Taipei for a combined total of over thirty-five years.
For fifteen years beginning in 1996, he was a senior executive at Studio Ghibli.