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JAPAN
Aug 15, 2014
Abe-Xi summit may hinge on marking of WWII defeat at Yasukuni
Any chance that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will get his wish for a summit with China may hinge on the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II at Tokyo's contentious Yasukuni war shrine.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2014
China says Japanese fighter jets shadowed its planes on patrol over disputed waters
Japanese fighter jets shadowed Chinese aircraft patrolling over disputed waters, China's Ministry of Defense said on Thursday, in the latest flare-up of a spat over air space that has deepened a rift between the two countries.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 5, 2014
Abe's hollow Asia diplomacy
The Asia diplomacy — aka China-containment policy — of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is showing signs of falling apart amid irritation among Southeast Asian countries over the slow pace at which Abe's promises of assistance, equipment, and acceptance of foreign workers are being carried out.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 28, 2014
A trip around the Yushukan, Japan's font of discord
Often overlooked in discussions about Yasukuni is the divisive role played by the Yushukan, the war museum built within the shrine grounds to promote the 'Yasukuni doctrine.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2014
China ship spies on U.S.-led naval drills
China sent a surveillance vessel to waters off Hawaii even as the country participated for the first time in the world's largest international naval exercise led by the U.S.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 18, 2014
High cost to new neutrality
South Korea's elite appears to be splitting into pro-Chinese and pro-American factions that transcend party lines, while German leaders' obsession with growing exports appears to have gagged them on China's human rights abuses and its aggressive behavior toward Asian neighbors.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2014
Putin fails as a grand strategist
Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown no sign he recognizes the political threat posed by the growing Chinese population on the Russian side of the Amur River in the Far East.
EDITORIALS
Jul 9, 2014
Abe pushing Beijing, Seoul together
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should realize that his historical revisionism and his new initiative in defense policy are further straining Japan's ties with its two closest neighbors.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 30, 2014
China suffers karoshi, as white-collar workers die from overwork
Chinese banking regulator Li Jianhua literally worked himself to death. After 26 years of "always putting the cause of the party and the people" first, his employer said this month, the 48-year-old official died rushing to finish a report before the sun came up.
EDITORIALS
May 28, 2014
The danger of provocation
Japanese and Chinese leaders need to resolve problems through diplomatic dialogue instead of talking about military responses to each other's moves.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 26, 2014
Beijing strangely silent as rival beefs up outpost
Taiwan is building a $100 million port next to an airstrip on the lone island it administers in the disputed South China Sea, a move that is drawing hardly any reaction from the most assertive player in the bitterly contested waters — China.
EDITORIALS
Apr 23, 2014
Resuscitating Japan-China ties
It's high time leaders of Japan and China stopped fanning the flames of narrow-minded nationalism and started talking to each other in an effort to put bilateral relations back on track.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 18, 2014
SDF should utilize Shimoji airport
A political professor assserts that Japan's air power would have a better chance of survival against possible Chinese salvos of ballistic and cruise missiles if Shimoji airport in Okinawa Prefecture were transformed into a military or dual-use facility.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 10, 2014
China warns U.S. ahead of Obama's visit, fearing high-profile tilt over disputed isles
In one of the many frank exchanges U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had in China this week, Gen. Fan Changlong told him how one of his uncles died as a slave in a Japanese mine during World War II.

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