A university delegation, led by Josai University Educational Corporation Chancellor Noriko Mizuta, visited China's Peking University on March 25, 2016. The purpose of the visit was to set up a branch of Josai's International Modern Poetry Center within PKU's Research Center of Chinese Poetry. The two universities seek to encourage exchange for the study of Japanese and Chinese poetry. On March 25, PKU held a ceremony in honor of the opening of this new research center. Affiliates of both universities and many distinguished guests came to the ceremony to offer their prayers for the development of future research exchange. Such guests included Xi Chuan and Xiao Xiao, two of China's active modern poets, and Yasuyuki Oda, an editor at the Japanese poetry journal publisher Shichosha. Also in attendance was Former Swedish Ambassador Lars Vargö, who is known as a translator of modern Japanese literature, as well as PKU Council Vice Chairman Ye Jingyi and First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan Shintaro Kikuchi.

For the future, plans for a 10-volume poetry anthology have been confirmed. The aim is to translate poems written in Chinese into Japanese and vice versa, and to publish the collection in the next three years. The translation center at Josai, which was established last year in the wake of the International Modern Poetry Center, will provide extensive support for this kind of international academic exchange.

East Asia has many traditional genres of poetry, and in this project they will be used with a focus on the 21st century. The goal is to spread appreciation for the beauty of poetic language's ability to cross borders through the flow of globalization.