Ferry Linking Shanghai, Western Japan Suspended Amid China-Japan Row

Beijing Teaches Japan’s New Leader a Lesson

Two weeks after she asserted that a military threat to Taiwan would spur military intervention by Japan, commentators continue to ask themselves what on earth Sanae Takaichi, the country’s new leader, had in mind when she blurted out such a provocative statement on such a sensitive issue. China’s response was immediate and angry.  Aside from taking Takaichi to task for intervening in a domestic concern, Beijing discouraged its citizens from trav…

Ferry linking Shanghai, western Japan suspended amid China-Japan row

A ferry service linking Shanghai with the western Japanese cities of Osaka and Kobe has been suspended at Beijing's request, the operator said, amid escalating bilateral tensions over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan.

'The Takaichi Fallout': Provocation cripples Japan's agri-fisheries

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent erroneous remarks on China's Taiwan have ignited the "Takaichi Fallout," delivering a fresh blow to the agri-fisheries industry. With Japan's fisheries still reeling from lost exports and severed market

China-Japan ferry halts service as tensions over Takaichi remarks flare

The ferry, named after monk seen as symbol of cultural exchange, has been suspended ‘due to a request from the Chinese side’, operator says.