Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato voiced serious concern over China’s latest export controls on rare earths, stressing the importance of coordinated action from Group of Seven nations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/16/economy/japan-finance-minister-china-rare-earth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #katsunobukato #rareearths #chinajapanrelations #g7 #scottbessent

Japan turns to anti-dumping measures as international trade gets complicated, with an uptick in the number of probes this year indicating an evolving strategy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/15/economy/japan-anti-dumping/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #china #southkorea #steel #trade #chinajapanrelations #southkoreajapanrelations

The Japan Coast Guard on Monday spotted a Chinese marine survey ship in the Japanese exclusive economic zone off an island in Kagoshima Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/japan/china-survey-ship-eez/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kagoshima #china #chinajapanrelations #amamioshima #japancoastguard

Japanese diplomacy has landed in a precarious position following the exit of Komeito from the LDP-led ruling bloc, as a spate of summits and meetings scheduled for the end of this month fast approach. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/japan/politics/japan-prime-minister-diplomacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #us #china #southkorea #southkoreajapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #sanaetakaichi #donaldtrump #leejaemyung #xijinping #asean #apec

Sanae Takaichi is often compared to Margaret Thatcher, but the analogy fails because Japan today is not 1980s Britain and her success depends on pragmatism, not ideology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/10/10/ideology-must-not-guide-takaichi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #sanaetakaichi #ldp #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #southkoreajapanrelations #defense #china #southkorea #us

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s likely first female prime minister, will face key diplomatic challenges with the U.S., China and South Korea, while addressing economic and demographic issues, if she is appointed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/08/japan/will-takaichi-be-the-leader-japan-needs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #ldp #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #defense #china #southkorea #us

Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, who is running in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election, expressed hopes for dialogue with Chinese leaders over Taiwan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/japan/ldp-takaichi-china-taiwan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sanaetakaichi #ldp #chinajapanrelations #taiwanjapanrelations

A Chinese survey ship was spotted within Japan's exclusive economic zone off Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/japan/china-ship-in-japans-eez/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #kagoshima #japancoastguard #amamioshima

A delegation of Japanese who were abandoned in China after the end of World War II and later came back to Japan visited China in what would likely be their last trip due to their advanced ages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/japan/ex-japanese-war-orphans-visit-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #wwii

Japan is recalibrating its core foreign policy principles to navigate an assertive China, a transactional U.S. and a shifting regional order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/23/world/japan-foreign-policy-in-uncharted-waters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #china #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #aukus #thequad #asean #indopacific

Japanese citizens in China remain concerned about their safety a year after a 10-year-old boy was stabbed to death on his way to a Japanese school in Shenzhen. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/society/china-japanese-boy-stabbing-one-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #chinajapanrelations #stabbings #shenzhen

Guests from China and Taiwan have reportedly clashed at a reception at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Denmark. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/japan/taiwan-china-clash-denmark-reception/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #taiwan #china #taiwanjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations

China’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday offered the latest hint that its third and largest aircraft carrier could soon enter service, after it undergoes further testing and training in the disputed South China Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/asia-pacific/china-fujian-aircraft-carrier-south-china-sea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #aircraftcarriers #pla #southchinasea #taiwan #disputedislands #chinajapanrelations #defense #defenseministry

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces on Thursday spotted for the first time China’s biggest and most advanced aircraft carrier, Fujian, as the vessel sailed in the East China Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/china-biggest-carrier-spotted-in-east-china-sea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #fujian #senkakus #aircraftcarriers #sdf

Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is visiting Japan on a "personal" trip, her office said, prompting an angry rebuke from China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/japan/politics/tsai-ing-wen-taiwan-visit-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #tsaiingwen #taiwan #china #taiwanjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations

China’s Foreign Ministry placed sanctions on Hei Seki, a Nippon Ishin no Kai lawmaker in the Upper House, for criticizing Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/japan/china-sanction-hei-seki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #china #chinajapanrelations #heiseki

China’s massive military parade through Beijing on Wednesday showed off scores of cutting-edge new weapons, with many specifically designed to keep U.S., Japanese and other allied forces at bay in the event of conflict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/asia-pacific/china-military-parade-weapons-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #pla #taiwan #sdf #defense #chinajapanrelations #uschinarelations #us #usmilitary #missiles #drones

The eldest daughter of a Japanese war orphan left behind in China at the end of World War II and repatriated decades later has opened a nursing car facility that provides support in Chinese. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/japan/japan-aging-left-behind-war-orphans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #chinajapanrelations #elderly #aging#nursingcare

Tokyo faces an impossible choice between an unreliable America and an assertive China. The solution? Don’t choose. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/28/japan/a-post-american-indo-pacific/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #indopacific #china #us #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #donaldtrump

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung's latest trip to Japan has put a damper on Sino-Japanese ties, with Beijing canceling at the last minute a bilateral meeting of agriculture ministers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/16/japan/politics/taiwan-foreign-minister-japan-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #china #chinajapanrelations #taiwan