Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in yet another provocative move detrimental to regional stability.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sends a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine, in a move likely to further strain ties with China and South Korea.
A Shanghai court placed a cargo ship of Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines under custody on Saturday after the shipping company failed to comply with the court's ruling on the compensation for two Chinese ships that were rented in the 1930s and later sank.
Beijing has called on Tokyo to explain what its intentions are in building a military radar station at the western end of its island chain, just 150 km from China's Diaoyu Islands.
A maritime court in Shanghai detained a Japanese ship on Saturday following a court verdict that ordered the ship's owner to pay delayed rent and losses to a Chinese firm, the court said on Sunday.
China says that "in view of the wrong words and deeds by the Japanese leaders" the naval representatives of the two countries are not expected to meet during the upcoming Western Pacific Naval Symposium in East China.
Keiji Furuya has visited a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead, including war criminals, a move that has previously caused friction with Japan's neighbors.
China has refuted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's criticism claiming that Beijing has tried to "change the status quo" in maritime disputes.
A group of Chinese scholars will testify in court to help victims of Japan's wartime bombings of Chongqing win their compensation lawsuits against the Japanese government.
Survivors of the Bombing of Chongqing during the World War II on Wednesday sued the Japanese government over its wartime antihuman bombings in Chongqing, the then Chinese capital, demanding governmental apology and compensation.
About 700 people who were forced to work in Japan during World War II filed a lawsuit in east China's Shandong Province, demanding both an apology and compensation from two China-based Japanese companies.
Japan's ongoing propaganda will never change the fact that the Diaoyu Islands are an inherent part of China's territory, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said at a daily news briefing.