Apartfrom Koizumi's unrelenting vis

Apartfrom Koizumi's unrelenting visits toYasukuni, on thejapanese side
bilateral "tensions" were represented, and arguably aggravated, through the
identification of China as "a concern" alongside North Korea in the revised
National Defence Program Guidelines in December 2004, for the first time
ever. AJapan-US joint statement in February 2005 was moreover interpreted
as if the military alliance encompassed the security of Taiwan—something
Beijing reacted against with dismay.^ Foreign Minister Asу Tarу also explicitly
referred to China as "a considerable threat" on several occasions in the mid-
2000s.' In addition, public opinion polls showed that the proportion of
Japanese citizens who "does not feel any affinity" {shitashimi o kanjinai) with
China increased by 15.4 percentage points between 2003 and 2005 (from
48,0 percent to 63.4 percent)."*
As it started to appear likely that Abe Shinzц would succeed Koizumi as
Japanese head of government in the summer of 2006, some articles in the
press expressed concern that Abe's credentials as a nationalist and a staunch
critic of China would ensure the prolongation of what had now begun to be
viewed as a "Sino-Japanese cold war."^ However, Abe made his first foreign
trip as prime minister to China, and the two governments were unanimous
in portraying the visit as an epoch-making success,^ Many observers even
came to regard the emerging bilateral "thaw" as one important exception
to the policy failures that were otherwise taken to characterize the Abe
administration's one-year stint in power (2006-2007),' During the similarly
short reign of allegedly more "dovish" Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo (2007-
2008), all talk about "ice-breaking" and "ice-melting" finally led to a

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Apartfrom Дзюнъитиро Коидзуми в неустанной посещений toYasukuni, лишь усиливают стремление сторон
двустороннего "напряженность" были представлены, и, возможно, через
идентификации Китая в качестве "озабоченность" наряду с Северной Кореей в пересмотренной
национальной обороны руководящие принципы программы в декабре 2004 г., в первый раз
как никогда. AJapan-США совместное заявление в феврале 2005 г. было истолковано