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CHINA

COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2013
A question of Chinese sovereignty
China's 'historic rights' claims in the South China Sea have prompted Southeast Asian nations to argue that China is flouting international law.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 28, 2013
China blogger gets surprise police visit
Two months after exposing a scandal involving sex tapes, blackmail and lucrative government contracts that got 11 officials fired, blogger Zhu Ruifeng received a surprise visit from Chinese security officials Sunday night.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 28, 2013
Anti-Japan propaganda has handcuffed Beijing
There is little doubt that rising nationalistic sentiments in China and Japan are being driven by Beijing.
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 28, 2013
Facts stack up against China's Senkaku claim
Regarding "Refer Senkaku issue to ICJ to avoid a train wreck," Hotline to Nagata-cho, Jan. 8): Brian A. Victoria's analogy—two steam locomotives rushing toward each other at full speed—is perfect, not so much because he predicts a collision but because it symbolizes that one of the trains is off...
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2013
ASDF jets scrambled 160 times against China planes between April, December
In the nine months, ASDF fighter jets were scrambled 349 times in total, up 14 from the same period in fiscal 2011, says the ministry's Joint Staff Office.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2013
The American comeback kid
One of the more startling forecasts is that China will become the largest economy by 2016 and that the U.S. will become an energy exporter by 2020.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 20, 2013
China may prevent Korean unification: U.S. report
A recent report by Republican staff members in the U.S. Senate warns that China, because of its deepening economic ties with North Korea as well as its ancient claims on Korean land, could attempt to "manage, and conceivably block," the eventual unification of the two Koreas, if ever the Kim family falls...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / WEEK 3
Jan 19, 2013
Nanjing remembers; disputes fester
Young Chinese marking the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre are baptized in battles over war memory that shape bilateral relations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 19, 2013
Meiji Japanese who sought to improve China
ASIA FOR THE ASIANS: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese, by Paula S. Harrell. Merwin Asia, 2012, 407 pp., $35 (paperback)
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Jan 8, 2013
Refer Senkaku issue to ICJ to avoid a train wreck
Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 8, 2012
Annals of cheap: bananas
Bananas haven't been this cheap in Japan since 1979.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2012
Beijing's Senkaku goal: Sub 'safe haven' in South China Sea
What's at stake in the smoldering diplomatic crisis with China over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which only seem to attract fishing boats and ultranationalists?
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 13, 2012
Getting away from it all on Aguni Island
I set out for the hospital lecture hall in high spirits, looking forward to a relaxing, refreshing stay on this tiny and seemingly uncrowded island.

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