Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Sanae Takaichi stands up to acknowledge the applause after she was selected as Japan’s new prime minister during an extraordinary session of the lower house of the Diet on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 in Tokyo. (AFP/Philip Fong)
World War Two, and the Japanese invasion of China which preceded it in 1931, remains a source of ongoing tension between Beijing and Tokyo.
J apan is trying to revive its wartime militarism and risks repeating the mistakes of history with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan, the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party said on Friday.
Takaichi sparked a diplomatic row with Beijing w
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