Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, best known for the "Ashita no Joe" series, desperately hopes for continued peace as he does not want to see the wartime dire state again.
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II on Aug. 15, Chiba, 86, said he wants the country to extend its "postwar period to 90-100 years" without getting involved in any war.
Born in Tokyo in 1939, Chiba soon moved to the then-Manchurian city of Mukden, now Shenyang in northeastern China, due to his father's business.
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