History and Territorial Disputes, Domestic Politics, and International Relations An Analysis of the Relationship among South Korea, China, and Japan

South Korea, China, and Japan have history and territorial disputes in each of their bilateral relationship. These issues have existed for several decades, but they have not surfaced all the time. In the recent past, however, both China and Japan adopted policies that caused friction. Why did they do that? That is because of China s aggressive foreign policy based on the strong economy and Japan s rightwing shift for domestic political reason to appeal to nationalism. In addition, these countries adopted aggressive foreign policies to pursue national interests at the price of their neighboring states.