China has called off a scheduled round of talks with Japan over the exploitation of gasfields under the East China Sea.
Japanese officials feared that similar unrest might break out on September 18th, the anniversary of an incident in 1931 that led to Japan's occupation of north-east China.
ECONOMIST: A row over disputed islands goes from bad to worse
About half of all US troops based in Japan are stationed in Okinawa, which lies south of Japan's main islands in the East China Sea.
Japan and China are currently involved in a territorial dispute over ownership of an East China Sea island chain, with the row sparking a Chinese boycott of some Japanese goods.
They have been hurt by a territorial dispute between Beijing and Japan over a group of islands in the East China Sea.
Whether the Chinese navy projects greater influence in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan because it bullied its way in or because a desperate Japan invited them in is ultimately immaterial if the end result is that Chinese ships can sail more freely and in greater numbers.
While Japan has been focused on its territorial dispute with China, Thursday's scramble against Russia was a reminder that the northern part of the Sea of Japan facing Russia can be as tense as the East China Sea to the south.
"These negotiations are about the protection of maritime resources in the East China Sea, " Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday.
BBC: China anger at Japan-Taiwan disputed island fishing deal
Natural-history museums that are popping up in China, Japan, and the Middle East have been accused of being willing to buy from anyone.
For the first time since the eighteen-seventies, Japan has a serious Asian rival, and politicians on both sides of the East China Sea are still picking at the wounds of the last great war.
North-east of the South China Sea lies a small crop of islands that Japan and China are squabbling over.
ECONOMIST: The spectre of big-power rivalry spoils an ASEAN gathering
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a rancorous dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
The ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have held meetings with Japan, China and South Korea for seven years in a row.
Such worries were heightened even further this week as a result of the latest diplomatic fracas between China and Japan over some disputed islands in the East China Sea.
This is the lesson we should have learned when Beijing stopped the export of rare-earth minerals to Japan last month to gain an advantage in their East China Sea dispute.
The U.S. can still sustain its growth and lavish expenditure not because it is impossibly rich, but because its colossal debts have been absorbed in the form of bonds and securities by the two East Asian nations--China and Japan.
On September 21, for instance, Beijing clearly violated its World Trade Organization obligations by banning the sale of rare-earth minerals to Japan to intimidate Tokyo in their territorial dispute in the East China Sea.
That particular issue is too sensitive, involving bigger fry, such as America, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, for the less powerful countries of South-East Asia to play much of a role.
Japan's was a war of self-defence, protecting its perfectly legal territories of Manchuria (North-East China) and Korea against Communist conspirators.
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