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Japan Defends Taiwan Comments Amid China Tensions

11/16/2025

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Japan responded to Beijing after China summoned Japan's ambassador over Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's survival-threatening Taiwan comments.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Minoru reaffirmed Japan's stance, citing peace in the Taiwan Strait and the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communique.
Kihara also criticized threatening remarks by China's Consul General in Osaka.
The Liberal Democratic Party was advised against attending a Japan-China friendship event on November 21.

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Japan responded to Beijing after China summoned Japan's ambassador over Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's survival-threatening Taiwan comments.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Minoru reaffirmed Japan's stance, citing peace in the Taiwan Strait and the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communique.
Kihara also criticized threatening remarks by China's Consul General in Osaka.
The Liberal Democratic Party was advised against attending a Japan-China friendship event on November 21.