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Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on IrishExaminer.com today.

Dark Souls creator and From Software president Hidetaka Miyazaki has said that he wants to work on a title in the sci-fi genre.

Tomm Moore has already enjoyed a night at the Oscars for his Song of the Sea, and now the animated feature is about to be released in Ireland, writes Ed Power

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Screen actress Maureen O’Hara has received her first Oscar aged 94.

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The Studio Ghibli animation wizard, Hayao Miyazaki - often billed as 'Japan's Walt Disney' has announced his retirement.

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of five more victims of Turkey’s latest earthquake, increasing the death toll to at least 17, including a Japanese aid worker who came after last month’s devastating quake.

Authorities began burning about 12,000 chickens at a southern Japan farm today to try stemming the spread of the country's latest bird flu outbreak.

HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S Spirited Away is a rare gem in a sea of mediocrity, and it may very well change your view of animated films for ever more.

A supermarket employee foiled a robbery in central Japan after a mobile phone in his shirt pocket stopped a bullet fired by the would-be thief, police said today.

Electronics giants Toshiba and Hitachi are planning large-scale job cuts amid a slump in global demand for information technology.