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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 26, 2013
Defense planners mull pre-emptive strike ability
Japan will consider acquiring the ability to strike at enemy missile sites, given North Korea's enhanced missile technology program, an interim defense report says.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2013
China set to try suspect in case of tainted dumplings exported to Japan
Chinese judicial authorities will begin the trial Tuesday of a man accused of lacing "gyoza" dumplings with a toxic chemical that led to high-profile food poisoning cases in Japan about five years ago, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing said Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 23, 2013
U.S. worried election-emboldened, nationalist Abe may roil Asia waters
Sunday's overwhelming victory by the Liberal Democratic Party has created a dilemma for the United States, which wants closer economic and military ties with Tokyo even as it fears that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet now have free reign to pursue a hard-line diplomatic stance that will damage...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2013
China grows more wary about Abe
China is apprehensive about Japan becoming more nationalistic after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition scored a comfortable win in Sunday's Upper House election, giving the ruling bloc control of both Diet chambers for the first time in six years.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 22, 2013
Japan's EAC opener against China ends in 3-3 draw
Samurai Blue squanders a two-goal advantage and is held to a 3-3 draw by China in its East Asian Cup opener in South Korea.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 18, 2013
China seen usurping U.S. hegemony
People around the globe believe that China will inevitably replace the United States as the world's leading superpower, but that doesn't mean they like the prospect, according to a new study on global attitudes.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2013
China's unilateral gas field pursuit draws protest
Japan will not accept China's unilateral tapping of gas fields in the East China Sea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday, after media reported that Chinese state-run oil companies plan to drill into seven new gas fields in the sea at the heart of heightened tensions between Tokyo and...
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 18, 2013
China economy 'unsustainable': IMF
China's economy, fueled by credit and government debt that has increased far faster than official statistics reflect, is heading in an "unsustainable" direction that poses major risks in the years ahead, the International Monetary Fund reported Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2013
ADB head warns about impact of China slowdown, U.S. monetary policy change
The Asian Development Bank will closely monitor how China's economic slowdown and the U.S. central bank's possible scaling down of its asset purchases will affect the economies in the region, ADB President Takehiko Nakao indicated Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2013
Strains to gradually ebb: Chinese scholar
A leading Chinese expert on Japanese affairs is predicting a gradual improvement in relations between Asia's two biggest economies after this Sunday's Upper House election, regardless of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hawkish political beliefs.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2013
China's media block violates trade commitments
From the moment they land in China, Americans must adjust to an aggressively censored version of the Internet, sanitized of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 15, 2013
Time running out for South Korean POWs still in North
Sixty years ago this month, a 21-year-old South Korean soldier named Lee Jae-won wrote a letter to his mother. He was somewhere in the middle of the peninsula, he wrote, and bullets were coming down like "raindrops." He said he was scared.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 14, 2013
Manila keeps eye on Beijing in South China Sea
The Philippines is keeping vigilant in light of China's "clear intent" to beef up its military presence in the South China Sea, particularly in a shoal located inside the Philippines' 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone, according to classified Philippine government papers seen by Kyodo News.
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2013
China and Russia practicing again
Japan should take China and Russia at their word when they say Tokyo should not be concerned by their joint large-scale naval exercise in the Japan Sea this week.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2013
Feelings about Japan depend on who's polled, and where
Public sentiment about the economy and the direction Japan is taking has improved somewhat since last year, according to a study by the Washington-based Pew Research Center.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 10, 2013
China's pivot toward North Korea
It's time for China to rebalance its traditional geostrategic interests with its role as a global leader. That calls for a policy of disciplined engagement toward North Korea.
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2013
China using force, defense report says
Japan is concerned that China's potentially dangerous maritime activities around the Senkaku Islands could lead to an emergency and Beijing should act according to international rules rather than use force.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 7, 2013
Abe accuses Chinese of 'using force'
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday criticized China for what he termed its bid to "change the status quo by force" in terms of its relations with Japan and other Asian nations.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2013
Sea treaty mutiny simmers
Some of China's political analysts and particularly military officers seem to be questioning why China ratified the Law of the Sea Treaty in the first place.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2013
China eyes a canal project in America's backyard
It would be easy to blow off the plans to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect both oceans if it were not for the expected support of the Chinese government.

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