“Japanese Embassy officials in Beijing say Chinese news and commentary on the Internet are setting back already tough efforts to improve relations between the two countries, but Chinese Net watchers reject the claim. Internet news and often anonymous user views on web portals, which are a common source of information for millions of Chinese students […]
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Despite official suspicion of Western influence, Erik Crouch reports at The Verge that American...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: A joint survey indicates both Chinese and Japanese people think the Sino-Japan relationship has improved significantly in the past year due to fruitful meetings of the two countries’ top leaders. The...
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: In the last week of 2007, Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo made an official visit to China. The tone of the trip was set by positive rhetoric on both sides and at one point, Fukuda expressed his conviction...
Read MoreFrom ISN Security Watch: Business and trade ties between Japan and China are soaring while tense political relations are only slowly recovering from a five-year low under former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. The moderate forces in both countries are holding out hope that the recent Japanese-Sino rapprochement is sustainable and strong enough to survive […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (RFA), thanks to David Kelly for the translation: Wen Jiabao’s official visit to Japan this week has been referred to by the Chinese media as an ice-melting journey. Public opinion everywhere is of the view that the years of Sino-Japanese freeze triggered by Koizumi’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine should […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: This post starts with the comment by Joi Ito: “I’m not trying to trivialize the issues that are being protested by the Chinese, but if they are trying to cause change in Japan, maybe some of them can try to talk to their allies in Japan like me instead of trying to […]
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The following propaganda instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Read MoreAmid the ongoing Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute — a notable spell of discord in the long-strained Sino-Japanese relationship — players on both shores of the East China Sea have made recent moves stoking the flames of diplomatic...
Read MoreAmid claims that China is attempting to keep the peace at sea, a former defense ministry official has dampened speculation about a war between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Islands. From Xinhua: Tension behind China and Japan...
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