Opinion: Ancient Neighbors, Current Antagonists

The animosity between China and Japan belies centuries of affinity.

China’s Fast Rise Leads Neighbors to Join Forces

China’s military expansion and assertive trade policies have set off jitters across Asia, prompting many of its neighbors to build alliances.

Chinese Economic Juggernaut Is Gaining on Japan

Many economists expect China to replace Japan as the world’s second-largest economy next year, five years earlier than previously forecast.

Showing the Glimmer of Humanity Amid the Atrocities of War

Lu Chuan has received death threats following the release of his new film about the occupation of Nanjing that offers a sympathetic treatment of a Japanese soldier.

As Its Work Force Ages, Japan Needs and Fears Chinese Labor

With one of the world’s most rapidly aging populations and lowest birthrates, Japan is facing acute labor shortages.

Getting in Shape for Games, China Strengthens Ties With Neighbors

Improved relations with Taiwan and Japan have helped showcase China’s frequent claims to be a new kind of global power that intends to rise on the world stage.

China Says It Will Accept Aid From Japan’s Military

China said it would accept disaster relief from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces in what would be the first Japanese military air mission to China since the end of World War II.

In His Visit to Japan, China Leader Seeks Amity

The leaders of China and Japan pledged to make their nations partners instead of rivals as Chinese President Hu Jintao began a goodwill mission to Tokyo.

Insecticide-Tainted Dumplings From China Sicken 175 in Japan

Japanese officials said the dumplings contained an agricultural pesticide used in China but not common in Japan.

Japan Urges China to Reduce Pollution

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan made energy and environmental issues the centerpiece of his visit to China.

Tokyo opposes Taiwan's UN referendum: Fukuda

Tokyo opposes Taiwan's planned referendum on UN membership, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said yesterday after holding talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶).

China and Japan set for close relationship

President Hu Jintao met visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda yesterday and called for more efforts to build strategic and mutually beneficial ties.

China remembers Nanjing massacre

Dec 13 - China commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre with sirens and bells.

China marked 70 years since Japan's infamous Nanjing massacre, invoking memories of the atrocity to remind Tokyo that the wartime past remains a bitter backdrop to an improving relationship.

The six-week wave of killings by invading Japanese troops overrunning Nanjing was among the bloodiest episodes of Japan's invasion of China, taking 300,000 lives according to official Chinese accounts.

For China, how Japan remembers the "Rape of Nanking" -- as the city was then called in English -- has become a defining test of how contrite its neighbour is about its brutal occupation of much of the country from the 1930s up to 1945.

Chinese Warship Visits Japan

A Chinese warship sailed today for the first port visit by the Chinese Navy to Japan since the end of World War II.

Safe Food for Japan

Washington has begun to study Japan’s tough system for ensuring the quality and safety of Chinese imports, particularly food.

As Japan and India Forge Economic Ties, a Counterweight to China Is Seen

As Beijing’s influence around the world has grown, common interests have forced Tokyo and New Delhi to begin warming their historically chilly relationship.

Third movie about Nanjing massacre starts shooting

"Con Air" director Simon West has started shooting a movie about the World War II-era massacre of thousands of Chinese by Japanese troops, the third feature film to coincide with the event's 70th anniversary.

Japanese comment on China's nationalism "illogical"

China on Thursday dismissed a Japanese official's comment that the country's economic boom will fuel nationalism as illogical.

China poison gas victims denied compensation

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower ruling today and denied financial compensation to a group of Chinese injured by chemical and other weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army after World War II.

Documents proving Japanese atrocities added to China's archives

The Liaoning Provincial Archives in northeast China received the donation of a substantial number of wartime documents relating to Comfort Women, the Nanjing Massacre and other brutalities committed by Japanese troops in China during WWII.