BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Tuesday lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for "openly challenging" Chinese territorial sovereignty after the Japanese leader's remark on a Taiwan emergency heightened bilateral tensions.

The drills come amid Chinese anger at U.S. arms sales to the self-ruling island and a statement by Japan’s prime minister that its military could get involved if China were to move against it.

Japan Coast Guard officials say Chinese government ships were spotted in the contiguous zone just outside Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on a record 356 days in 2025,

F or nigh on 1,000 years, the Japanese pirates have wreaked havoc…they respect only force, and their hearts are bursting with malice.” This month China’s armed forces released these verses on social media.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region.

Giant pandas from China have delighted visitors to zoos in Japan for more than 50 years, but fans are now anxious that the star attractions may disappear altogether amid an intensifying diplomatic row over Taiwan.

China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s top automobile sales country. In 2025 new vehicle sales, Chinese automakers sold the most vehicles globally. Japan, which had maintained the top position for over 20 years after overtaking the U.

Japan is threatening China militarily which is "completely unacceptable", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, after Japan said that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft.

Chinese military to stage drills around Taiwan to warn 'external forces' after Japan tensions.