
China Sends in the Boats: Fresh Confrontation with Japan
While Diaoyu/Senkaku seems like the focus for conflict, Beijing could be using the friction to test the new and hawkish PM in Tokyo.

While Diaoyu/Senkaku seems like the focus for conflict, Beijing could be using the friction to test the new and hawkish PM in Tokyo.

Shooter Tetsuya Yamagami was said to have held a grudge against the Unification Church.

With a coalition agreement reached, the new Japanese leadership pledges reforms aimed at strengthening the economy and ensuring long-term responsibility for future generations.

The leader of the right-wing Liberal Democrats pledges a tough approach to migration and tighter controls on foreign nationals.

After the 2011 tsunami, the nation shut down all of its nuclear reactors.

Beijing’s airspace incursion and war games near Japan prompt Tokyo to brand China its greatest strategic threat.

Nippon Kaigi is leading a movement to enlarge the role of the emperor and reaffirm a conservative nationalism.

If we consider the origin myth of sumo, we may reflect on how the war between the celestial and earthly realms was tamed by the sport and turned into an arena structured by higher principles.

Apart from Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Beijing’s increasingly muscular position on its claim to Taiwan and the South China Sea is bringing the G7 considerable anxiety.

Russia’s naval drills coincided with a visit by Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu, who said that military cooperation between Russia and China was “developing very well.”