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After Kan Naoto took power from Hatoyama who resigned as prime minister on 2 June 2010, he appointed Niwa Uichito as the ambassador of China, succeeding Miyamoto Yuji in late July. Niwa was part of the student movement against the 1980 revision of the Japan-U.S. security treaty when he was a student at Nagoya University. [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 31 May 2010, Japan and China agreed to have a hotline between Hatoyama Yukio and Wen Jiabao, who visited Tokyo after holding a summit in Jeju, Korea, where three countries: Japan South Korea, and China talked about rising tensions after the sinking of a warship in March by a North Korean torpedo. In order [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 18 May 2010, the Japanese Diet (House of Representatives) unanimously passed a bill which will protect the Okitori Islet. Under the new law Japan would invest and repair the islet by creating an EEZ. In the following day, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ma Zhaoxu denied the Japanese claim that Okitori Islet was an islet, [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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The US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton started her Asian tour on 21 May 2010. The first stop was Japan, where she only stayed three hours and fifteen minutes for a meeting with foreign minister Okada Katsuya and Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio. No significant agreement was reached between Japan and the USA. Thereafter, Clinton [...]
Posted: September 20th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations, US-China Relations.
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During the end of 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, the Chinese had suffered from the opium. As a result, the Chinese government has strictly punished illegal drugs in China. In 2006, Akano Mitsunobu was convicted of attempting to smuggle stimulant drug totaling about 2.5 kg from Dalian to Japan. On 6 April [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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In February, the Japanese government announced that its GDP grew at 1.1 percent during September and December (Daily Mainichi). This will place Japan as the second economy ($5.1 trillion GDP) in the world even though China had 8.7 percent economic growth in 2009 ($4.9 trillion GDP). Economic indications have limits. China is still a developing [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 11 December 2009, the Germany government will name Berlin’s new airport after Willy Brandt, the former West German leader. The airport is expected to complete by 2011. The Nobel Laureate in Peace made his famous visit in Poland by bending his keens to apology to the Jews regarding the Holocaust during WWII. Should anything [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 30 November 2009, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon (OPCW) opened its 14th conference in the Hague of Holland (till December 4th). The head of the Chinese delegation, Zhang Jun, insisted that “I hope that Japan will remove its chemical weapons in China, abandoned by the Japanese imperial army, as soon as [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 27 November 2009, the Chinese Defense Liang Guanglie and the Japanese Defense Minister Kitazawa Toshimi held a joint press briefing in Tokyo to announce a joint naval drill agreement in next year after the Chinese delegation arrived Japan for visiting. This military exchange will be the first joint naval exercise for search and rescue [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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When the Vice President of China, Xi Jinping, visited Japan on 14 December 2009, his visit created one of hottest debates in Japan. Since the Japanese emperor has prostate cancer in 1995, the Imperial Household Agency has asked any leaders from any countries must arrange the meeting with the emperor a month in advance as [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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Recently, Beijing University held a Japanese Studies Contest hosted by the center of Japanese studies. This contest is the only one in China offered at the master degree level. Currently, about 70 universities offer Japanese Studies at the graduate level (including Japanese language and Japanese literature), and students continue to increase dramatically. This year, according [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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In 1942, the decision by the Tojo Hideki Administration forced about 40,000 Chinese brought to Japan into slavery, working in 135 factories (Asahi Shimbun). For the past 64 years, LDP refused to acknowledge the Japanese government’s mistakes by ignoring the slavery issue. On 23 October 2009, Nishimatsu Construction Corporation agreed with five Chinese to set [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Pacific Forum CSIS, wrote an article in the Japan Times regarding Japan politics after the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won the parliamentary election. “The real obstacles to improved Japan-China relations defy any change in government and many require changes not in Tokyo, but in China. The issues include [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
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The first execution of a Chinese citizen living in Japan occurred on 28 July 2009 since WWII. In 1999, Chen Detong killed 3 people in Kawasaki, Japan. Chen was found guilty by the Tokyo Supreme Court in June 2006. Now, four more Chinese are waiting for the execution in Japan.
Posted: November 11th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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During the U.S. occupation of WWII in Japan, the United States took large quantities of Japanese military government documents for the purpose of investigating Japan’s war crimes and gathering military intelligence. However, the US government copied about 3 percent of a total of 18 million pages of documents on microfilm and sent them back to [...]
Posted: November 5th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 4 July 2009, the Japanese government decided to send its Self-Defense force to the Yonakuni Island. This led to an alert by the Chinese media including both Taiwan and Hong Kong. The area of the Yonakuni Island is about 28 sq. km. with 1,700 citizen including two policemen, located in south about 500 kilometers [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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According to the Japanese media, the Chinese government sentenced Yu Jiafu, a former reporter of Xinhua News Agency, to 18 years in prison recently. The 62-years-old reporter has admitted that he gave the top-secret information regarding the Chinese foreign policy of North Korea to foreign diplomats including Miyamoto Yuji, the Japanese Ambassador to China in [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
Comments: 79
The 60-year-old Human Right Commission was replaced by the UN Human Rights Council on 15 March 2006. This year is election year for the members of the UN Human Rights Council (2009-2012): 5 seats from African States, 5 seats from Asian States, 2 seats from Eastern European States, 3 seats from Latin American & Caribbean [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
Comments: 98
In the beginning of June (June first), Treasury Secretary Tim Githner went on his first foreign trip – China – to reassure Chinese leaders that America is committed to long-term fiscal discipline. In other words, he kept asking the Chinese to keep buying US bonds in order to maintain the recovery of American economy. Interestingly, [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations, US-China Relations.
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The deadline for coastal states to submit the delimitation of the maritime beyond 200 nautical miles to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea was 13 May 2009. The Chinese government submitted initial information on the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the East China Sea to the [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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During the Japanese golden week, Aso Taro visited Beijingon the 29th. He met the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao and talked about various issues. However, it seems that a number of isues of Sino-Japanese relations have not reached any resolve. While Aso emphasized the Chinese military expenses, Wen criticized Aso’s donation of [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
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On 18 March 2009, the largest naval vessel ever built for Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force, a 13,950-ton Hyuga with a 195-meter full-length flight deck, was delivered to the Ministry of Defense in Yokohama. On 11 April 2009, the Hyuga opened to the public at the Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture; more than 10,000 visitors [...]
Posted: June 5th, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
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Recently, the Chinese government approved two films (Associated Press): “City of Life and Death” which examines the Nanjing massacre through the eyes of a Chinese soldier, and “John Rabe” which is about German businessman, John Rabe, the head of the 7-sq. km. International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone (ICNSZ), who saved about 200,000 Chinese [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
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Aso Taro believes that the United States will be required to help Japan under a bilateral security treaty if a foreign country invades the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Aso’s comments were made at a meeting on foreign affairs at the House of Representatives Budget Committee when Maehara Seiji of the Democratic Party [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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The paramount Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping went Tokyo and signed the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty with the Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo in October 23, 1978. The year 2008 is the 30th anniversary of the peace treaty. Unfortunately, there is no cause for celebration regarding Sino-Japanese relations. A few reasons can be summarized. There [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2008 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations.
Comments: 179
When both Beijing and Tokyo agreed to the joint development of oil/gas field in East China Sea on June 16, the announcement caused nationalists in both countries to become excited. On one hand, the radical Chinese nationalists believe that their government sold the sovereignty of Chunxiao oil field. On the other hand, the radical Japanese [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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Since 2004, both Japan and China have negotiated oil/gas development issue in the East China Sea (regarding this history see chapter 9 in China and Japan at Odds: Deciphering the Perpetual Conflict for Posterity, edited by Jamese C. Hsiung, 2007). Finally, on June 18, two superpowers in the East Asian region finally settled the oil/gas [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2008 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
Comments: 179
