Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, best known for the ¡°Ashita no Joe¡± series, desperately hopes for continued peace as he does not want to see the wartime dire state again.
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Japan¡¯s surrender in World War II on Aug. 15, Chiba, 86, said he wants the country to extend its ¡°postwar period to 90-100 years¡± without getting involved in any war.
Born in Tokyo in 1939, Chiba soon moved to the then-Manchurian city of Mukden, now Shenyang in northeastern China, due to his father¡¯s business.
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