Theater exchanges bring Chinese, Japanese people closer

TOKYO - When Chou Sugo, a senior student at Waseda University in Tokyo, saw the Chinese Kunqu Opera for the first time in his life here, he was greatly impressed.

"The expressiveness of the actors' movements, the emotional appeal of their expressions ... This was the first time for me to watch the Kunqu Opera, and I'm already looking forward to the next time," said Sugo with admiration.

Sugo was one of the around-600 people who listened to a lecture on this traditional Chinese opera form and then watched three famous Kunqu Opera excerpts performed by the visiting Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe in the Okuma Hall of Waseda University recently.