China has urged the Japanese government to make clear its stance on right-wing activists' latest pro-nuclear weapons statements.
Beijing called upon Tokyo on Monday to make the "security concerns of Asian neighbors" a priority in response to Japan's government drafting new principles on arms exports.
Beijing opposes a Japanese initiative aiming to draw up an act that would "lay the legal basis" to foster ties between Tokyo and Taiwan.
The People's Liberation Army Air Force on Friday identified and verified foreign military planes entering China's recently established East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone.
Japan was urged by a Chinese spokesman on Monday to stop its provocative talk after its country's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe depicted China as a threat to regional security.
Japanese Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense.
Moscow expressed displeasure with the expanding US-Japanese alliance in the Asia-Pacific region.
Washington has made a clarification to Beijing to dismiss a Japanese media report on a so-called US-Japan joint combat plan for "retaking" China's Diaoyu Islands, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday.
The Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday that a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship intruded into a Chinese military exercise in the open sea.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman said Japan's surveillance of a zone used by the Chinese navy for drills is "a highly hazardous act of provocation."
Foreign Ministry on Friday responded to Japanese cabinet members' visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival by urging Japan to reflect on its history of aggression.
The US Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces ended on Friday joint military exercises using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga。