On October 23, the Chinese Animation Festival and Film-TV Week, as part of joint animation festival and film-TV week of China and Japan, was grandly opened in Tokyo. 

The Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko attended the opening ceremony at Roppongi Hollywood Square in Tokyo in the afternoon and delivered a speech. In his speech, he expected to take this event as an opportunity to better mutual understanding of the two peoples of China and Japan, strengthen friendship, and further develop the strategic reciprocal relationship in the light of the 40th anniversary of the normalization of the diplomatic relations of China and Japan in 2012. 

Mr. Fujimura Osamu, chief cabinet secretary of Japan, and Edano Yukio, minister of economy, trade and industry, attended the opening reception in the evening and respectively addressed. In this speech, Fujimura Osamu mentioned his nickname as Doraemon Chief, implying that culture has gone beyond limitation of ages or nationalities. China and Japan are supposed to strengthen animation exchange and better mutual understanding. As to Edano Yukio, he believed that this event would serve as a driving force to realize the further cooperation of Chinese and Japanese cultural industries. 

The joint holding of animation festival and film-TV week is a consensus reached by the leaders of two countries when Premier Wen Jiabao visited Japan in May 2010, which involves Chinese Animation Exhibition, Chinese and Japanese Animation Master Forum, Chinese Film Festival, Film Forum and Opening Reception, and becomes the lately largest cultural event held by both governments in Japan.