Japan and China's top universities will expand their collaboration to open the door for more academic and student exchanges, a move encouraged by the first meeting last year between the two countries' current leaders, university officials said.
The University of Tokyo and Peking University struck a basic deal on the establishment of a "strategic partnership" in mid-January that will pave the way for them to bring their relationship beyond existing exchange agreements and carry out various joint programs more flexibly, the officials said Saturday.
The university presidents are to sign an agreement on the cooperation framework in early March in Tokyo, said the officials, who declined to be named as the proceedings have yet to be made public.