{Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says other countries want Japan to adopt a more assertive leadership role in Asia to counter the growing power of China. } <\/p>\n
Mr Abe told the Wall Street Journal there were “concerns that China was trying to change the status quo by force, rather than by the rule of law”. <\/p>\n
Relations between China and Japan have been strained over recent years. <\/p>\n
China said on Saturday that if Japan shot down Chinese drones, this would be considered “an act of war” by Beijing.<\/p>\n
The statement was referring to reports that Mr Abe had approved defence plans that envisaged using air force planes to shoot down unmanned Chinese aircraft in Japanese airspace.<\/p>\n
Another contentious issue between the two countries is the dispute over a group of islands.<\/p>\n
The islands, in the East China Sea, are controlled by Tokyo, but claimed by Beijing. <\/p>\n
But analysts say the nations’ rivalry reflects the power shift created by China’s meteoric economic and diplomatic rise while Japan has been mired in a two-decade economic slump.<\/p>\n
China has warned against Japanese nationalism in a region where Japan’s colonial expansionism is still bitterly remembered.<\/p>\n
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