Japan faces different problems, but it cannot prosper without finding some accommodation with both China and South Korea. Its failure to solve the problems over U.S. bases means that its relations with the ally on whom it must depend also need attention. Yet some Japanese politicians seem to think that banging the nationalist drum and lambasting Chinese claims to the Senkaku Islands and South Korean claims to Takeshima will win them votes and bolster Japan's case internationally.
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