<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="display: block;">There is a very interesting event coming up about the relationship of Japanese and Chinese film industries organized by Nakajima Seio. They’ll broadcast it by Zoom and it’s bilingual. Here’re the details (link for registration and more info at the bottom). </div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">Markus</div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><div id="unit-316610" class="hsNormal" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(61, 62, 64); color: rgb(61, 62, 64); font-family: Inter, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", Osaka, Meiryo, メイリオ, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; justify-content: space-between !important;"><div class="bTtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 681.90625px; justify-content: space-between !important;"><h1 class="color10" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 2.3em; font-family: Roboto, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", Osaka, Meiryo, メイリオ, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; position: relative; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(46, 45, 45) !important;">The Present and Future of the Chinese Entertainment Market 2025</h1></div></div><div id="unit-316611" class="hsNormal" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(61, 62, 64); color: rgb(61, 62, 64); font-family: Inter, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", Osaka, Meiryo, メイリオ, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; justify-content: space-between !important;"><div class="bSubTtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 681.90625px; justify-content: space-between !important;"><h2 class="color11" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; position: relative; color: rgb(25, 64, 143) !important;">Views from Japan</h2></div></div><div id="unit-316612" class="hsNormal" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(61, 62, 64); color: rgb(61, 62, 64); font-family: Inter, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", Osaka, Meiryo, メイリオ, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; justify-content: space-between !important;"><div class="bTxt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 681.90625px; justify-content: space-between !important;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Organizers: </strong>Sasakawa Peace Foundation/Japan China Entertainment Economic Forums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Co-Organizers:</strong> Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (WIAPS), Research Group on Contemporary Chinese Independent Film/Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS)</div><div class="bTxt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 681.90625px; justify-content: space-between !important;"><br></div><div class="bTxt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 681.90625px; justify-content: space-between !important;"><div id="unit-316613" class="hsNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; justify-content: space-between !important;"><div class="extArticleText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; justify-content: space-between !important;">The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and Japan China Entertainment Economic Forums (JCEE) are set to host a public symposium focusing on the entertainment and creative industries in China. Japan’s films, animations, games, and intellectual properties (IPs) have consistently been popular in China. Traditionally, there has been a significant flow of cultural products from Japan to China in the entertainment sector, with relatively limited influence in the opposite direction. However, in recent years, Chinese animations, games, and IPs have gained increasing popularity in Japan.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Furthermore, during the Japan-China High-Level People-to-People and Cultural Exchange Dialogue in December 2024, both sides reaffirmed their commitment to enhancing exchanges through creative-industry content.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">This symposium aims to reassess the current state of Japan-China cultural exchange in the entertainment sector by examining the latest developments in China and the current status of entertainment exchanges between the two countries, while also exploring future prospects.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The symposium will cover topics such as the history of ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) culture in China, investment trends in the entertainment sector, as well as discussions on games and films.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We hope that through this symposium, we can gain new insights into the evolving Japan-China relationship through the lens of the entertainment industry.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">*Talks will be in Japanese, but Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided.</div></div></div></div></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.spf.org/en/seminar/list/20250306_2.html"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.spf.org/en/seminar/list/20250306_2.html" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#044084;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" width="300" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="39240-ogp-20240221183702.jpeg" src="cid:A38751D6-AE4F-44E0-A75F-C8D8940984B5"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#044084" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(4, 64, 132, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.spf.org/en/seminar/list/20250306_2.html" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.847059);">The Present and Future of the Chinese Entertainment Market 2025</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.spf.org/en/seminar/list/20250306_2.html" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.54902);">spf.org</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>