"Improving the bilateral relationship will be my top priority. It's big challenge for me," Japan's new ambassador to China Masato Kitera said in a recent interview with Chinese media at the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Japan moved to the right and unsettled the region, observers said, after the country's conservative opposition swept to victory in national polls on Sunday.
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There was "no room for talks" on territorial disputes with China, Shinzo Abe, Japan's next prime minister said after his party won the election.
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Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won by a landslide in Sunday's general election as it solo secured 294 seats.
The LDP of Japan won the election, but tension with China will continue if party chief Shinzo Abe follows his hawkish campaign rhetoric, experts said.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sunday conceded his party was defeated in the general election and said he was stepping down as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan.
Leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shinzo Abe said Sunday that his party will improve Japan's relations with China as soon as possible.
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Japan's main opposition party Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba and his New Komeito party counterpart on Sunday confirmed that the two parties will form a coalition government if they win a majority in Sunday's general election, Japanese media cited lawmakers as saying.
Whichever party wins Japan's parliamentary elections held on Sunday should devise its foreign policy with a long-term and pragmatic prospective so that the country can repair its strained ties with neighbors and play a constructive role in the region.
The governing Democratic Party of Japan is expected to be ousted, with the conservative Liberal Democratic Party predicted to return to power.
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