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Students' Play Bypasses China-Japan Tensions
Japanese and Chinese students in the all-singing, all-dancing finale of the play they wrote themselves, <em>Zouba!</em> Professor Liu Haiping, who guided the project, says it's a "miracle" that the play actually was staged.
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Chinese and Japanese students brought together to produce a play soon learned that tensions still divide their nations.
So, after initial clashes, they wrote a new play that shies away from historical issues.
The play features students from International Christian University of Tokyo and Nanjing University in Nanjing, China.
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