At least one panda has lived in Japan since the Japanese and Chinese normalized their diplomatic ties in 1972.

The number of Chinese visitors to Japan fell by almost half in December, in the clearest sign yet of the economic impact from ...

Also part of the equation this week: China's visible pivot to another regional neighbor, South Korea, whose president spent four days in Beijing. Seoul has a bumpy history of its own with Japanese ...

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements.

China and Japan are bound together by trade and geography, but a long history of rivalry and unresolved disputes makes even periods of cooperation fragile.