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U S TERRITORIAL DISPUTES

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 26, 2016
How to avoid war in the South China Sea
War between China and the United States is not inevitable.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2016
The South China Sea is not a Chinese lake
If China takes a hardline path or fails to significantly moderate its behavior in the months ahead, the case for further international pushback will become compelling.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2016
Japan, India agree to boost three-way defense cooperation with U.S.
Amid China's increasing maritime assertiveness, the defense ministers of Japan and India agreed Friday to boost their trilateral security cooperation with the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 18, 2015
Japan and the 'maritime pivot' to Southeast Asia
Japan's security focus remains rooted in its immediate region centered on the East China Sea, Sea of Japan, and the open seas of the Western Pacific.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2015
Weighing Japan's options in the South China Sea
Rather than send Japanese ships to conduct freedom of navigation patrols in the South China Sea, Japan should continue to focus its efforts on maritime capacity building in Southeast Asia.
EDITORIALS
Nov 3, 2015
China loses a 'lawfare' skirmish
An international arbitration tribunal's decision provides South China Sea claimants with an opportunity to breathe new life into negotiations designed to turn the 2002 ASEAN-China Declaration on a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea into a real code of conduct.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2015
Why we must push back in the South China Sea
Doing nothing, or making only isolated gestures to oppose China's sovereignty claims in the South China Sea, will simply hand Beijing a fait accompli.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 18, 2015
South China Sea: what 12 nautical miles really means
If the U.S. government goes forward with its plans to conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea, it should be prepared for its intentions to be misread or distorted.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2015
China's unfinished island wars
China will continue to pursue its claim to the Spratly Islands, but Hainan and Taiwan remain the two great pearls of its maritime frontier strategy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2015
Japan discloses photos of China's gas development in East China Sea
Japan made public Wednesday a map and aerial photos of 12 offshore structures as evidence of China's unilateral gas field development near the median line between its shoreline and that of Japan in the East China Sea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2015
Beijing is getting a bad rap in South China Sea disputes
If Beijing has been behaving badly in the South China Sea, then so too have others.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2015
New round of China-bashing
What is altering the status quo and 'destabilizing' the South China Sea? Is it China's reclamation activities or is it the U.S. military rebalance?
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2015
The South China Sea conflict in a nutshell
The stakes in the South China Sea are high for both the U.S. and China, as is the risk of a miscalculation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 9, 2015
Managing disputes with China
U.S.-China relations are not a zero-sum game — and that it's dangerous to act as if they are.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2015
China's military might: the good news
China doesn't need to be as militarily powerful as the U.S. to pose serious problems in East Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 4, 2015
U.S. should stay out of Asian countries' territorial disputes
Instead of goading China, the U.S. should withdraw from East Asia's territorial miasma.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2015
Beijing's bendable principles
Just as China plays all its cards against India and rears even new ones, India must shed its reticence and do likewise to build countervailing leverage.
EDITORIALS
Apr 13, 2015
Textbooks toe the government line
The government would do well to remember that uniform textbooks compiled by the state during and before World War II went hand in hand with Japan's militarism.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2015
China's Xi preaches peace in keynote address
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that turmoil at home or abroad were not in the country's interests as its bitter past has shown, pledging that Beijing will never stray from its proclaimed path of peaceful development.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 21, 2015
Ministers agree on leaders' summit
The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China on Saturday agreed that a summit of their leaders, on hold for nearly three years because of tensions over history and territory, should be held soon to mend the countries' frayed ties.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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