At least one panda has lived in Japan since the Japanese and Chinese normalized their diplomatic ties in 1972.

China imposed controls on exports to Japan with any military use, intensifying a dispute between Asia’s top economies over remarks Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made last year on Taiwan.

Also part of the equation this week: China's visible pivot to another regional neighbor, South Korea, whose president spent four days in Beijing. Seoul has a bumpy history of its own with Japanese ...

China and Japan are bound together by trade and geography, but a long history of rivalry and unresolved disputes makes even periods of cooperation fragile.

Relations between Japan and China worsened late last year after Japan’s prime minister said its military could get involved if China were to take action against Taiwan.

Japan has ramped up its security cooperation with the Philippines in other ways, too, steadily donating vessels and other ...

Masayuki Masuda, who leads the China division at Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies, and John Chuan Tiong Lim, a research fellow at Tokyo University’s Institute for Advanced Studies on ...

China has banned exports of some rare earth elements and other items to Japan that could be used for military purposes, straining already tense relations between the two countries following the ...