Meanwhile, all eyes are on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to see whether he will push for remilitarization.

The foreign ministers of China and Japan held a four-hour meeting on Saturday. They’ll need more time than that.

The leaders of China and Japan met formally at the APEC conference, and took valuable steps towards a more amicable relationship. That’s good news for the U.S., too.

A Chinese state-run paper pours cold water on the prospects of a historic Xi-Abe summit at the APEC conference.

Japan’s acknowledgment of China’s position on the Senkaku/Diaoyu Island isn’t the major surrender it might seem. In fact, Abe is playing his hand well, and China doesn’t have all the advantages.

The Chinese Ambassador to Japan said that Shinzo Abe’s efforts to woo Xi Jinping into meeting with him and to foster warmer Sino-Japanese relations are paying off.

For the first time in two years, high-level delegations from Japan and China met to discuss tensions in the East China Sea. If that is anything to go by, it’s a huge confirmation for Shinzo Abe’s strategy, and a sign that the two Asian great powers will not end up going to war.

Relations between the two countries are at an all-time low, with a majority of poll respondents from each nation thinking poorly of the other, and more than half Chinese respondents expecting war.