After reading the reports and comments, I found most of the media concentrated on the point that "90 percent of citizens from each side share a negative impression of the other country."
Ordinary people in China and Japan are pessimistic about future economic cooperation between the two countries as bilateral relations worsen, a recent survey has found.
The impasse between Beijing and Tokyo has badly hurt the attitude of both peoples toward their neighbor, with nine out of 10 saying they dislike the other nation.
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A four-ship fleet of the China Coast Guard (CCG) on Friday patrolled territorial waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, according to a statement from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA).
A first-person online shooting game co-developed by the People's Liberation Army, which allows players to virtually defend China's Diaoyu Islands, became available as a beta test download on Thursday.
Beijing on Thursday dismissed Japan's complaints of a Chinese military aircraft flying through international airspace near Japan's southern islands, saying it was not the first time a Chinese aircraft had conducted legal training in the western Pacific.
Tokyo is planning to boost surveillance in waters around the Diaoyu Islands and acquire the ability to launch pre-emptive military strikes in a defense policy update that may set off alarm bells in China. Diaoyu Islands dispute
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is unlikely to visit the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in the "memorial day for the end of the war" on August 15, reported local media on Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make no concessions on the territorial dispute with China during a rare visit to two remote southwestern islands. Japan warned against provocative acts on Diaoyu Comment: What do you think of China-Japan ties?
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Wednesday urged Japan to stop all provocative words and acts detrimental to China's sovereign rights.
Japan highlighted China as a major security threat in its latest defense white paper released on Tuesday, using harsher language than in previous papers.
Japanese defense report worrisome
FM spokeswoman Hua Chunying Tuesday described Japan's annual defense report as an attempt to play up the "China threat," adding that Japan's efforts to bolster its military are worrisome. Japan highlights China as 'security threat'