Japan rejects China’s ‘new militarism’ accusations and urges ‘candid dialogue’

Beijing has repeatedly criticised Tokyo’s growing defence spending and military moves. This month, China’s foreign ministry ...

A familiar refrain as China and Japan, uneasy neighbors in East Asia, begin 2026 at odds again

China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to ...

Japan and China trade accusations at Shangri-La Dialogue

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has strongly rejected China's claim that Japan is moving toward “neo-militarism.” He ...
The Diplomat

China, Japan, and Shifting Narratives of War

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...
The Diplomat

The Deepening Deterioration of Public Sentiment Between Japan and China

For two decades, Tokyo’s Genron NPO has been asking citizens of both China and Japan the same question: What do you think of the other country? What they have found is not a gradual drift but a ...
The New York Times

Japan Has Changed How the World Must Think About Taiwan

Mr. Singleton is the senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A single word can crack the facade of a great power’s confidence. That’s what happened last ...