Japanese citizens and social groups held rallies on Sunday in Yokosuka City, demanding that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retract her erroneous remarks regarding China's Taiwan region, and opposing her plans to expand the military.

China’s expanding naval presence across East Asian waters is unfolding alongside Japan’s accelerated militarization of its islands near Taiwan..

During a phone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed that Taiwan's "return to China" is a key part of the postwar international order.

Hundreds of Japanese people held a protest in front of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, demanding that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retract her recent erroneous remarks on Taiwan.

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks linking Taiwan to Japan’s "existential crisis" caters to US attempts to contain China, binds Japan’s fate to Washington’s strategy, and masks its deep fear of being discarded as a disposable ally, says a Chinese journalist and analyst.

China-Japan relations in the wake of Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan represent “the most dangerous situation in the past several decades," says a Taiwan-based journalist and political analyst.

China has expressed serious concern over Tokyo’s recent military threats, warning citizens to avoid travelling to Japan.