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Sea of Confrontation: Japan-China Territorial and Gas Dispute Intensifies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

J. Sean Curtin
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Japan and China appear headed for a showdown over natural gas exploration and drilling in the East China Sea.

Up until Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday visited a controversial shrine to his country's war dead, it was hoped the showdown might occur at the negotiating table. But the visit, his fifth since 2001, once again infuriated China, as well as other Asian nations, putting the status of a wide range of talks between the two countries in jeopardy. Among them was this week's hoped-for decisive round on East China Sea gas.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , e21
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