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.
Shortly after Xi Jinping became president of China, the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily concluded for the first time that the status of Okinawa was "unresolved," despite decades of official recognition of Okinawa as part of Japan. (Source photo by Yusuke Hinata)
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