The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Japan is holding an exhibition promoting Taiwanese manga.
The exhibition, titled “Manga’s Bond,” opened on Thursday, and was organized by the office, the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, Kinokuniya Bookstore and the Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center.
Consisting of 108 works by 113 Japanese artists and 120 by Taiwanese artists, the exhibition represents the close relationship between Taiwan and Japan, the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.
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In 2021, to mark the 10th anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the association invited Japanese manga artists to create works on autograph boards to thank Taiwan for its assistance after the disaster, the ministry said.
The works debuted at the Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival that year and were shown nationwide, it said.
Inspired by the association’s gesture, 120 Taiwanese manga artists last year created works on autograph boards to thank Japan for donating 4.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan, the ministry said.
The 228 works in the “Manga’s Bond” exhibition were exhibited at last year’s Taipei festival. They are showcased at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Shinjuku, Tokyo, until Sunday, before moving to the Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center in Iwate Prefecture, and then to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Japan in Tokyo.
Taiwanese and Japanese can overcome language barriers and bond through manga, Representative to Japan Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) said at the exhibition’s opening ceremony.
Manga can enable Japan and Taiwan to better understand each other’s cultures, Liberal Democratic Party Youth Division Director Norikazu Suzuki said at the opening.
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