LAS VEGAS, U.S. -- Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" on Sunday in the U.S. won the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature, making the legendary animator the first Japanese to take home the award, considered a prelude to the Oscars, since it was established in 2007.
Miyazaki, 83, announced his retirement from producing feature films in 2013, changed his mind and then spent seven years making the semiautobiographical fantasy about a boy who lost his biological mother and was evacuated during World War II.
