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The article discusses the need of reshuffling defense priorities and spending increase security in Japan. Topics include views of Yasuhiro Matsuda, a security specialist at the University of Tokyo in Japan, regarding pressure on government spending to increase social security for aging population, relationship between Tokyo, Japan & Beijing, China and initiative taken by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to improve Japan's ability to cooperate with the U.S.

The article discusses the action taken by security analysts for assessing risks of Sino-Japanese War between Japan and China. It presents views of Yasuhiro Matsuda, a leading specialist on the Sino-Japanese security relationship at the University of Tokyo in Japan, regarding the same. It also mention that defense academics Robert Ayson and Desmond Ball write about the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and China.

The author discusses tensions between China and Japan as of February 2014, arguing that conditions are prime for one provocation to lead to war. Topics include comparison to tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Able Archer military exercise in 1983, the role of Internet discussions on the subject, and China's declaration of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea.

An interview is presented with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Brown states that there are too many levels of management at the Department of Defense and there may be too much focus on long-range planning. He says there is a risk of armed conflict between China and Japan. Brown says that China has inadequate civil government control of the armed forces.

The article discusses a dispute over sovereignty of the Senkaku/Daiyoutai Islands in the East China Sea between Japan and China. Incursions by Chinese warships and military airplanes into waters and airspace of the islands and responses by Japan's Self-Defense Force are considered as indications of the increasing tension between the two countries over the dispute.

The article reports on China's foreign trade in the first quarter of 2017. Topics include increase in year-on-year foreign trade value; elevation of export value of mechanical and electrical products in terms of commodity structure; increase in export value of private enterprises; and increase in our exports to the U.S., European Union, and Japan.

The article states Japanese brand owners are looking to a newly elected government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reduce territorial tensions with China which has resulted in vehicle exports to China to drop by 84 percent and mentions Chinese consumers are shunning popular Japanese products.

The article focuses on the dispute between Japan and China over the ownership of the Senkaku Islands. Information is provided on the countries' economic interests in the islands, the hydrocarbon potential of the area, and the exploitation of the seabed under the 1982 United Nations (UN) Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).