Tokyo, Japan - Nov 20, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of Prime Minister's Office, security guards, traffic

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lim Wen Jye, senior researcher, Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research, Malaysia (starting with shot 1/ending with shot 3):
"Sanae Takaichi say that a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency. This statement is very dangerous. It breaks basic principles of international law and international relations. It also interferes in China's internal affairs and try to pull Japan into a regional conflict. This work shows that some Japanese politicians are moving forward right-wing ideas and risky military thinking."

Tokyo, Japan - Nov 20, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of National Diet building, security guards, traffic

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Brawer, chairman, Belt and Road Institute in Sweden:
"To my view, Takaichi is simply a puppet for these forces that are being activated - the old military forces, the right-wing forces in Japan."

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Cityscape
6. Pedestrians

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - 2024 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. National flag of Japan

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8. National Diet building

Tokyo, Japan - Dec 4, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese political economist (starting with shot 8):
"From a diplomatic perspective, existing agreements between Japan and China were overturned. When Sino-Japanese relations were normalized, China's approach to Japan was to make a distinction between Japanese militarists and ordinary citizens, and not to seek reparations. However, the Japanese government must bear its due responsibility for the past."

Tokyo, Japan - November 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Various of National Diet building, traffic

International relations experts from Japan and some other countries warned against the rise of right-wing militarism tendencies in the Japanese government reflected in Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent Taiwan-related remarks.

Critics say such blatant disregard of history and basic principles of international relations could have very dangerous impacts, damaging mutual trust Asian countries have worked hard to build and threating peace and stability in the region.

"Sanae Takaichi say that a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency. This statement is very dangerous. It breaks basic principles of international law and international relations. It also interferes in China's internal affairs and try to pull Japan into a regional conflict. This work shows that some Japanese politicians are moving forward right-wing ideas and risky military thinking," said Lim Wen Jye, a senior researcher at Malaysia's Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research.

"To my view, Takaichi is simply a puppet for these forces that are being activated - the old military forces, the right-wing forces in Japan," said Stephen Brawer, an international relations expert and chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden.

In Japan, scholars have stressed the importance of stable bilateral relations with China and urged the prime minister to withdraw erroneous remarks.

"From a diplomatic perspective, existing agreements between Japan and China were overturned. When Sino-Japanese relations were normalized, China's approach to Japan was to make a distinction between Japanese militarists and ordinary citizens, and not to seek reparations. However, the Japanese government must bear its due responsibility for the past," said political economist Kazuhide Uekusa.