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Senkaku/Diaoyu islands
Japan’s Defense Minister Kept Busy as Obama Visits Asia
By Victor Robert Lee
Itsunori Onodera has spent the week bolstering Japan’s defenses, but was not helped by his colleagues.
US-Japan Relations and Obama’s Visit to Japan
By Yo-Jung Chen
Both countries face some delicate tasks during the US president’s stopover.
Shinzo Abe’s Nationalist Strategy
By Kosuke Takahashi
With his overt nationalism and his historical revisionism, Shinzo Abe has a plan for Japan.
East China Sea: What Do China and Japan Really Want?
By Kai He
Keeping the peace requires understanding what the two sides want out of the dispute.
Head of Japan’s NHK: Broadcaster Should Support Senkaku Claim
By J.T. Quigley
Katsuto Momii also called international anger over Japan’s wartime brothels “puzzling.”
U.S.-China Relations and the Western Pacific
By Denny Roy
Maritime assertiveness in 2013 appears to have dashed hopes for a “new kind of great power relations.”
China’s Three Challenges in 2014
By Minxin Pei
Xi Jinping has announced a bold blueprint for reform. Now he has to execute it.
Why China Wants to ‘Strike the Mountain’ and ‘Kill the Chicken’
By J. M. Norton
Understanding two critical strategies for Beijing, one internal and one external.
Japan To Formally Nationalize 280 Islands
By Ankit Panda
Japan will nationalize 280 islands within its exclusive economic zone, according to a senior official.
China Arrests Right-Wing Japanese Politician
The man, who takes a hardline stance on the Senkaku Islands, faces death in China on drug charges.
The Battle for the Senkakus Moves to the Skies
Rather than engage in aerial brinksmanship, Japan and China would do well to keep this conflict grounded.
Constructing China's Claims to the Senkaku
The claims that both the PRC and Taiwan make to the islands are both recent and flawed, argues one blogger.