China has banned exports of some rare earth elements and other items to Japan that could be used for military purposes, straining already tense relations between the two countries following the Japanese prime minister’s recent remarks on Taiwan.

China and Japan are two of Asia’s most powerful nations and the region’s biggest trading partners. Yet centuries of intense rivalry mean their economic embrace can never be taken for granted. A number of issues continue to simmer, including China’s ...

A smaller number of tourists – especially from Japan – was “primarily” responsible for the renewed drop in new export business. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Nikkei has released a new survey of 100 Japanese CEOs, showing that when asked about the impact of the worsening Japan-China bilateral ties on businesses, 67.3 percent of respondents said "negative" or "somewhat negative,

Japanese and Chinese tourists offend one another personally while Communist China engages in vituperative rhetoric over Tokyo’s worries about Beijing’s claims to Free China, the independent Chinese province of Taiwan. “The Japanese are fed up with ...

BEIJING (AP) — Just days after China issued an advisory against traveling to Japan, the cancellations started. About 3,000 Chinese visit Rie Takeda's tearoom in an alley in Tokyo's historic Asakusa district every year. Some 200 have already canceled ...