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Is nationalism rising in Japan?

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes looks at how Japan and China's dispute over the uninhabited Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands is bringing a new wave of nationalism to the surface.

As Japan and China continue to exchange angry words over their competing claims to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes finds a growing wave of nationalism in Japan.

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  • 13 Nov
  • From the section Asia