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There were no surprises as China announced its Olympic table tennis squad on June 17.

China will surpass Japan in R & D spending this year to become the number two country world in that department...behind the U.S.

The U.S. spends about...

A Japanese political leader warns that Japan may become a province of China within 20 years.

Food exports have dropped by 30% to Japan, which is a key market for Chinese food products. As long as the government refuses to tackle this issue head on, then China really has no one to blame if Japan or other countries decide to start consuming less food products from China.

It's the fucking sea of JAPAN!

U.S. Army intelligence officials were told that China, the Soviet Union and North Korea planned to invade Japan during the Korean War, according to documents uncovered by Kyodo News at the National Archives in London.

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Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, shown above at the Soviet leader's birthday celebrations in 1950, along with Kim Il Sung may have plotted that year to invade Japan. AP PHOTO

For years economists have wondered whether the inevitable rising power of China was similar to Japan in the 1980s.

The past is present everywhere, but Japan is an unusually history-haunted nation. Elsewhere the Cold War is spoken of in the past tense. Japan, however, lives in a dangerous neighborhood with two communist regimes -- truculent China and weird North Korea.

Take the forthcoming children's movie, "Little Soldier Zhang"... Director Sun Lijun says "I thought about including one sympathetic Japanese character, but this is an anti-Japan war movie and I don't want to confuse anyone," [He] will premier his film on International Children's Day.