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In early September, Yoshihiko Noda passed the one-year mark as Japanese prime minister. That’s no small accomplishment—the country is on its sixth premier since 2006. Noda has seen his approval rating drop to 34 percent after doubling a sales tax to 10 percent, however, and he has reshuffled his Cabinet three times. If he’s going to make it another year, he’ll need to defuse a tricky foreign policy crisis: Japan and China’s quarrel over ownership of a group of uninhabited islands in a potentially energy-rich section of the East China Sea.
The Japanese government’s decision last month to nationalize part of the islands (called the Senkaku in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese) triggered protests in dozens of Chinese cities. It is also hurting Japan’s economy. In September, Toyota (TM) and Nissan (NSANY) suffered their biggest monthly drop in Chinese car sales since the financial crisis in late 2008.JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is predicting a 0.8 percentage-point hit to Japan’s gross domestic product from the China dispute in the fourth quarter. The International Monetary Fund, which held its annual meeting in Tokyo from Oct. 12 to 14, said the tension may crimp growth worldwideyodo/AP Photo
Noda says Japan won’t yield ownership of the Senkaku
Noda has called for talks with China, and diplomats from both sides have agreed to hold a meeting soon to resolve the crisis. “These are the second- and third-largest economies in the world, and our interdependence is deepening,” Noda, 55, said in an Oct. 10 interview in his office in Tokyo. “If our ties cool, particularly economic ones, then it isn’t a question of one or the other country suffering. Both countries lose out.”
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