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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they pose for photographers before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Oct. 26, 2018. Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the historic communique that former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka signed with former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. (Li Tao/Xinhua via AP, File)

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Friend or foe? Japan-China ties complicated after 50 years
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Wed,09/28/22-8:53PM , 219 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Friend or foe? Or both?
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Anti-Japan protesters on disputed islands march near the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, China, on Sept. 16, 2012. Japan and China on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 normalization of their ties, but there isn't much of a celebratory mood. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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EXPLAINER: What's behind strained China-Japan relations
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Wed,09/28/22-12:29AM , 163 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan and China on Thursday mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 normalization of their ties, but there isn't much of a celebratory mood.
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A portrait of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hangs on the stage during his state funeral, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, Tokyo. Abe was assassinated in July. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

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Japanese former leader Abe honored at divisive state funeral
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Mon,09/26/22-8:04PM , 126 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, was given a rare state funeral Tuesday full of military pomp and surrounded by throngs of mourners as well as by widespread protests, with thousands taking to the streets in opposition.
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People protest outside Diet against the state paying for Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's funeral in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2022. A rare state funeral Tuesday, Sept. 27 for the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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EXPLAINER: Why is Japan split over Abe's state funeral?
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Mon,09/26/22-2:43AM , 371 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan.
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