Japan strikes combat role in South China Sea in post-war pivot

Shared concerns over China have drawn Manila and Tokyo together. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com ...
The Economist

Why Japan and China will struggle to end their feud

R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n ...

Japan Joins South China Sea Combat Drills With US and Philippines in Post-War Pivot

Japan’s decision to send combat troops to the Philippines for the first time since World War II and participate in a ship-sinking drill in the South China Sea this week underscores Tokyo’s rising ...

Why Yasukuni Shrine is a controversial symbol of Japan’s war legacy

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ...
The Economist

What China can learn from Japan about escaping deflation

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed ...
Washington Examiner

China decries Japanese prime minister for World War II shrine support

The Chinese Communist Party is resurrecting one of its favorite complaints against the Japanese government, decrying officials’ routine visit to a shrine honoring dead soldiers of World War II.