Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 1992 were kept so secret that the prime minister at the time, Kiichi Miyazawa, complained he was not sufficiently consulted.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has appointed Yoko Kamikawa as foreign minister, one of five female members of his new Cabinet that was formed on Sept. 13.
The seventh Summit on Taiwan-Japan Exchange was held in Kobe, Japan, on Nov. 12. The rude objections posed by Chinese “wolf warriors” before the meeting, plus the news that a joint Chinese and Russian naval flotilla sailed around Japan, passing through the Tsugaru, Osumi and Tsushima straits, angered councilors across Japan.
As a result, more than 500 guests, including 365 councilors from 70 local councils, attended the summit. It is all the more significant that such a large number of politicians attended the meeting, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
First consider the external factors. The 17th Japan-China Joint Public Opinion Survey, which