NTDTV
| May 9, 2013
Is China upping the stakes in its territorial dispute with Japan? An editorial in the state-run People's Daily has infuriated Japan by questioning the country's claim to the Ryukyu Islands, the largest of which is Okinawa -- home to 1.2 million Ja...
LinkAsia
| Feb 1, 2013
Last week's meeting between Japan's New Komeito party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi and Chinese president Xi Jinping eased tensions in the territorial dispute over an island chain in the East China Sea. But social media users in both countries are still...
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CCTV News
| Jan 25, 2013
Japan reached out to China this week in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. New Komeito party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi went to Beijing with a proposal to end the hostilities. State-run CCTV News has China's pe...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 24, 2013
The East China Sea islands dispute that many fear could spark war between China and Japan is no longer a two-sided dispute. Taiwan has become increasingly embroiled in the dispute and its coast guard vessels exchanged water cannon fire with their ...
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CCTV News
| Jan 14, 2013
The images are striking: Japanese soldiers camouflaged with shrubbery storming up a hill on motorcycles and pouring out of helicopters. As China's state-run CCTV reports, Japan's Self-Defense Forces have carried out an "island defense drill" in th...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 13, 2012
Thousands of people gathered in Nanjing yesterday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese assault that became known as the Rape of Nanking. China says 300,000 civilians and soldiers were killed in the six weeks of carnage that still sours rel...
LinkAsia
| Nov 5, 2012
On the eve of the US presidential election, LinkAsia speaks with Stanford University's Andrew Horvat in Tokyo. Japanese are drawn to President Obama's charisma despite the fact that he hasn't had Japan's back in recent territorial disputes.
LinkAsia
| Nov 2, 2012
Tokyo's controversial, right-wing mayor Shintaro Ishihara has announced that he is forming his own national political party. Contributor Nicholas Ito reports from Tokyo on how Japanese citizens are reacting to this news on social media.
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CCTV News
| Oct 22, 2012
US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met with leaders in China and Japan this past week to try to calm things down. China's CCTV News reports on the meetings.
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CCTV News
| Oct 1, 2012
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV gives their perspective on Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's speech at the United Nations. The Chinese foreign ministry has responded with unusually harsh language directed at Japan over the ongoing Diaoyu/Sen...
The Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands in Mainland China or Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, or the Pinnacle Islands, are a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan in the East China Sea. They are located roughly due east of Mainland China, northeast of Taiwan, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands.
After it was discovered in 1968 that oil reserves might be found under the sea near the islands, Japan's sovereignty over them has been disputed by the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China following the transfer of administration from the United States to Japan in 1971. The Chinese claim the discovery and control of the islands from the 14th century. Japan controlled the islands from 1895 until its surrender at the end of World War II. The United States administered them as part of the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands from 1945 until 1972, when the islands reverted to Japanese control under the Okinawa Reversion Treaty between the United States and Japan.
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