Abe Avoids War Shrine After Reported Chinese Request
Official visits to Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are enshrined...
Aug 15, 2016
Official visits to Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are enshrined...
Feb 23, 2014
On an upcoming visit to Germany, President Xi Jinping is planning to send a message to Japan by...
Feb 9, 2014
Reuters reports that the United States has emphasized its intention to defend both Japan and...
Jan 20, 2014
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s December visit to the Yasukuni Shrine—a Shinto shrine...
Jan 14, 2014
After comparing each other’s countries to Harry Potter nemesis Voldemort, the Chinese and...
Jan 9, 2014
The Chinese and Japanese ambassadors to the U.K. have appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight after...
Nov 25, 2013
As tensions between China and Japan mount once more, Robert Dujarric asks why Japanese apologies...
Oct 17, 2013
Though Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has thrice refused calls for him to visit the...
Apr 22, 2013
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe offered his country’s “maximum support” to China following a 6.6Mw earthquake in Sichuan on Saturday that killed at least 186 people and injured over 11,000. Beijing replied...
Dec 3, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Dec 3, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Nov 30, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Nov 14, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Jun 18, 2012
A strange keep-out sign has been circulating online: Notice: The following persons are not welcome...
Apr 26, 2009
The New York Times published an editorial criticizing China’s reactions to Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s recent offering at the Yasukuni Shrine and to a potential meeting between President Obama and the Dalai...
May 4, 2008
From The Japan Times: A Tokyo movie theater on Saturday became the first in the nation to screen the controversial documentary “Yasukuni,” drawing hundreds of viewers throughout the day despite drizzling rain. People...
Apr 22, 2008
One hundred sixty lawmakers in Japan prayed in Yasukuni Shrine, which is considered to be a hypersensitive location in Sino-Japan relations. Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was not among the visitors. Thus, the bottom...
Nov 5, 2007
From Far Eastern Economic Review: There are no paparazzi visible on the hillside above Lee Teng-hui‘s home in the Shihlin suburb of Taipei, but his aide points out where they stake out the house with their long lenses. While the former president is officially retired”two golf bags stand ready by the carport”he remains a political […]