Analysis: China moves to play 'Okinawa card' over Japan's Taiwan stance

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

Will China's strategy toward Japan change significantly? This serious concern has inevitably arisen following the recent violation of Japanese airspace by a Chinese military Y-9 intelligence-gathering plane off Nagasaki prefecture in late August.