TOKYO -- In 1978, when Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited a factory belonging to what is now Panasonic Corp. in Osaka, he made Chairman Konosuke Matsushita an offer he couldn't refuse.
Stacked odds: A decoupling world should be pulling apart Asia's two biggest economies. Instead, Japan is leaning even more heavily into China. © Nikkei illustration
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