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 and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
As Xi Jinping and Sanae Takaichi mind their political battles at home, China-Japan ties risk being frayed by neglect. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Shun Kato and Yusuke Hinata)
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