Last week, some 200 Chinese fishing boats were escorted by 13 coast guard vessels to waters just off Japanese-controlled islands claimed by both countries.
Japanese fighter jet pilots are getting no rest these days. In a statement released Wednesday, the Japanese Defense Ministry revealed that Japanese fighter jets were scrambled against Chinese planes a record high 415 times during the year ending in March. That number is up 36 percent from a year earlier – and is the highest […]
The 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution demanding its sister city’s mayor, Toru Hashimoto, retract his comment that Japan’s wartime system of sexual slavery was necessary at the time, according to a Japan Times article. The Osaka mayor said in May the so-called “comfort women” were a “necessary evil” so […]
While ties between China and its neighbors have long been strained by territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Beijing’s policy has typically been one of self-restraint coupled with patient diplomacy. But when the Japanese government announced the purchase of the Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu in China, from private citizens late last […]
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