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JAPAN CHINA

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.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2014
Japan, China execs vow to unite on commerce
Business leaders from Japan and China have pledged to keep the lines of communication open despite diplomatic friction over the Senkaku Islands and conflicting perceptions of wartime history.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2014
Asia think tanks aiming to make a mark in easing regional tensions
At a time when governments and policymakers throughout Asia are struggling to find common ground on territorial disputes and other contentious matters, think tanks are trying to tap into their unique roles to bridge the gaps.
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.
JAPAN
May 23, 2014
Tourists from Taiwan, China, S. Korean spend the most in Japan
Tourists from Taiwan, China and South Korea accounted for 68 percent of spending by all tourists in Japan last year, according to a report by Tokyo's de facto embassy in Taiwan.
JAPAN / Politics
May 18, 2014
Japan, China trade chiefs hold first talks since isles flare-up
Trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Chinese counterpart on Saturday held talks for the first time in two years and agreed to strengthen economic cooperation, despite bilateral disputes over territorial and historical issues.
JAPAN
May 8, 2014
New LDP delegation set to meet China's No. 4 leader on Friday
A group of lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will meet with Yu Zhengsheng, the fourth-highest ranking member of the Communist Party of China, on Friday as the two countries work to repair bilateral relations badly damaged by territorial and historical issues.
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.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Mar 17, 2014
Tokyo on horns of dilemma responding to Ukraine crisis
Japan faces a dilemma over how to respond to the crisis in Ukraine following the vote Sunday by residents of Crimea, a majority of whom are ethnic Russians, in favor of seceding and joining Russia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 6, 2014
China's civilian fleet is a potent force asserting sovereignty in disputed seas
From harassing Filipino fishing boats and monitoring oil exploration off Vietnam to playing cat-and-mouse with the Japan Coast Guard, China's expanding fleet of civilian patrol vessels have become the enforcers in disputed Asian waters.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 3, 2014
Repairing the tripartite ties
Japan's relations with China and South Korea are at their lowest ebb since Japan normalized its diplomatic relations with them. One way to break the jogjam could be a tripartite free trade agreement.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 10, 2014
Mutual fears of China, Japan
China and Japan are perceiving more and more threats from each other, and their overactive responses are causing strong sense of insecurity for the region. The vicious circle is driving an escalating arms race.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 4, 2014
Saving Japan and China from a dangerous new conflict
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had hoped to herald his economic reform program at Davos last week. Instead, his mention of tensions between China and Japan exposed the lack of multilateral institutions like those created in Western Europe after 1945 to settle Northeast Asian disputes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 24, 2014
Abe's remarks on WWI parallels to be clarified
The government will make clear to other countries what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meant earlier this week when he compared the rocky relations between Japan and China to those of Britain and Germany prior to World War I, officials say.
COMMENTARY
Jan 21, 2014
Japan heading for darker days
It's still baffling why the Abe administration was in such a hurry to have the state secrets bill passed when various opinion surveys showed that the bill was opposed by about 80 percnet of respondens on the very day the Upper House voted on it.

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