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The Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival (ANIAFF) will hold its first edition from December 12 to 17 in Nagoya. Organized by the team behind the Niigata festival, it centers on a competition screening 11 animated films from around the world. The event includes screenings, chat shows, and storytelling.
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A 36-year-old resident of Tsushima in Aichi Prefecture has translated and published her late grandfather's notes detailing his experiences as a student soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The translation took seven years, completed amid work and child-rearing, in time for the 80th anniversary of the war's end this year. She hopes it prompts global readers to view wars as their own concern.