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.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has decreed that Chinese maps use two names for this Russian port city, Vladivostok and Haishenwai, the name before the Treaty of Peking was signed in 1860. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Reuters and Yusuke Hinata)
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