Japan has urged its citizens in mainland China to take safety precautions as diplomatic tensions sparked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan continue to escalate. In a message on its website, the Japanese embassy in China said it reiterated “safety measures in light of recent local media coverage concerning Japan-China relations”. “When going…
Tokyo — Japan said Monday that it had scrambled aircraft after detecting a suspected Chinese drone near its southern island of Yonaguni, which is close to Taiwan, on Saturday, as tension between the Asian adversaries spiked. On Sunday, Chinese coast guard vessels spent several hours in Japan’s territorial waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands, known as…
Chinese media and ordinary citizens expressed outrage Monday towards Japan, as an escalating diplomatic spat threatens to wreck relations strained by historical grievances and strategic rivalry. Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on November 7 that the use of force against self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims, could warrant a military response from Tokyo. “What does…
Even as China’s travel warning to Japan after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan comments deepens a diplomatic rift, many ordinary Chinese are keeping their plans to visit this season’s hottest overseas destination. Despite Beijing’s caution, there’s been no significant cancellations yet of trips to Japan on China’s biggest online travel booking platforms as of Monday,…
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Monday while U.S. futures advanced after Wall Street’s lackluster finish to last week. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.3% to 50,226.67 after the government reported that the Japanese economy contracted at a 1.8% annual pace in the July-September quarter. The dollar rose against the Japanese yen,…
Japan risked turning the entire country into a battlefield if it intervened militarily in the Taiwan Strait, an article published by Beijing’s military mouthpiece PLA Daily warned on Sunday, marking the latest escalation in a diplomatic clash sparked by comments from the Japanese leader. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the Japanese parliament on November 7…
China’s biggest airlines have offered full refunds for flights to Japan after Beijing told Chinese citizens to avoid travel to the country, marking an escalation in a row over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s suggestion that Tokyo could deploy its military forces in a cross-strait conflict. Air China, China Southern and China Eastern published separate…
By Peter Catterall China has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by comments by Tokyo’s new premier about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan. A member of security stands guard at the Japanese embassy in Beijing on November 14, 2025. China summoned the Japanese ambassador over remarks by the…
Published on Nov 03, 2025 10:55 pm IST China strongly condemned Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s high-profile meeting with Taiwan’s former Vice Premier Lin Hsin-i at the APEC summit in South Korea, accusing Tokyo of violating the “One China” principle and sending the “wrong signal” to pro-independence forces in Taipei. The Takaichi-Lin meeting triggered an…
Beijing has protested to Tokyo over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s contact with a former senior Taiwanese politician on the sidelines of the Apec summit in South Korea, describing the action as “egregious”. Takaichi posted photos of herself meeting Lin Hsin-i on social media on Friday and Saturday, referring to him as “senior adviser to the…