Chinese kids through a Japanese lens

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Editor's note:

Ryoji Akiyama is a Japanese photographer known for his work expressing his thoughts and feelings on different cultural activities. Born in 1942 in Tokyo, he graduated from the Department of Literature at Waseda University. After he successively worked for AP News Agency and Asahi News Agency, he resigned and chose to become a freelance photographer.

The following set of pictures was taken by Ryoji Akiyama in China in 1982, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the normalization of the China-Japan diplomatic relations. These pictures were later collected in Ryoji Akiyama's photographic book "Hello, Little Friends," published in 1983. They give a vivid and detailed account of the daily life of Chinese children in the early 1980s.

Two eight-year-old Chinese children unfold their calligraphy scrolls in 1982. On the scrolls is written in Chinese characters "long live the Chinese-Japanese children's friendship." [File photo]


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