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His childhood trauma is suggested as a root cause. Growing up during the height of World War II, Miyazaki experienced the horrors of war firsthand as Japan endured multiple bombings. These events, it is argued, have seeped into his subconscious, manifesting in recurring themes of guilt, war, and destruction that pervade his films—particularly The Wind Rises, which grapples with the moral dilemmas of engineering aircraft used in warfare.