Believing pop culture such as manga and anime will help establish a foundation for stable relations between Japan and China, Meiji University President Keiichiro Tsuchiya has been promoting bilateral exchanges through lectures on cultural topics at Peking University.
Efforts by Tsuchiya, 71, include a lecture series on Japanese manga and anime delivered at the prestigious university in Beijing since May 2010 and the establishment of the Meiji University Manga Library Reading Room there in November 2014.
"It is interesting that the most conservative and authoritarian university in China has a manga library," Tsuchiya said with a laugh.