Analysis: China's pressure revives ancient Japanese sense of crisis

While Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi play to their domestic audiences, their nations are losing the kind of diplomatic go-betweens that throughout history have been useful in healing rifts. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Ken Suzuki)

Nearly 14 centuries after the Battle of Baekgang, strained ties lead neighbors into an abyss

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent, and later as China bureau chief, and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.