TOKYO: Japan downgraded its assessment of China on Friday (Apr 10) for the first time in a decade, marking a new blow to relations between the Asian superpowers.Japan's ties with Beijing have soured i ...
'Japanese companies hold a firm belief that they cannot compete globally without succeeding in the Chinese market': Kenji Kanasugi China and Japan must work hard to improve public opinion towards each ...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Nara, Japan, on Jan. 13, 2026. Reporter South Korea has become a new focal point amid an escalating feud between ...
Tokyo's annual diplomatic blue book set to describe China ties as 'strategic' and 'mutually beneficial', a step down from 'most important' With Tokyo expected to downgrade the description of ties with ...
Japan’s Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, Oct. 31, 2025. Credit: Prime ...
Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance. On June 4, 2023, Xi Jinping visited a national archive in Beijing where he ...