Deadlock Japan: Japanese Government and Japanese Companies

deadlock japan: Although having boasted about his globe-trotting diplomacy for many years, the Japanese prime minister is actually leading his country into a diplomatic deadlock, according to Global Times China. Japan currently does not enjoy good relations with any of its neighbors. The most plausible answer lies in Japan's poor handling of foreign affairs. There have been signs of unease under Abe's leadership and he is acquiring the reputation of a noisy trouble-maker in East Asia and Northeast Asia. Despite a denial by the Japanese government, this move is widely seen as retaliation against a judgment by the South Korean Supreme Court asking Japanese companies to compensate forced laborers they drafted in Korea during the World War II. Japan's economic coercion triggered national outrage and forced South Korean retaliation. Japan has fallen out with South Korea by excluding the latter out of its whitelist of preferred trade partners in August. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.