The LDP of Japan won the election, but tension with China will continue if party chief Shinzo Abe follows his hawkish campaign rhetoric, experts said.
Noda quits from DPJ's presidencyLDP, Komeito agree to form coalition Special: Japan Election Comment: China to make good on neighbors
Chinese and Japanese aircraft were involved in a standoff in the skies above the Diaoyu Islands on Thursday. Special: Diaoyu Islands Dispute
China has expressed serious concern and firm opposition to a U.S. bill that regards China's territory as under the authority of a U.S.-Japan security pact.
As ties between China and Japan plunge to their lowest in decades, an amendment passed by the US Senate to make the Diaoyu Islands covered by a US-Japan security pact will boomerang.
Japanese automakers have started to see their sales in China rebound after Japan's illegal "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands caused sales to decline sharply.
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Japan is urged not to do anything that will harm regional security and stability as right-wing forces rise in the country ahead of an election next month, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
Sovereignty protection 'proper and necessary': FM Special: Diaoyu Islands Dispute
A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday reiterated that the country has never accepted Japan's so-called existence on, or control of, the sea area adjacent to the Diaoyu Islands.
China vows to maintain territorial sovereignty
New Japanese ambassador to China named
The Japanese government officially approved the appointment of Masato Kitera as its new ambassador to China at a cabinet meeting Thursday morning.
Japanese exports to China fall amid islands row
Japan did not seem to worry about its economic ties with China when the political front was frigidly cold during the five-and-a-half years of Junichiro Koizumi's premiership.
China opposes Japan's so-called "actual control" of the Diaoyu Islands and the waters surrounding them, Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
Japanese firms are not pulling out of the Chinese market despite tension over the Diaoyu Islands, a Japanese envoy said. Diaoyu Islands Dispute
Beijing has lodged an official protest with Tokyo over the Dalai Lama's trip to Japan, which comes amid tense relations between the two nations.
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