Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 58 territorial dispute 50 diplomatic spat 49 territorial disputes 46 heightened tensions 45 disputed islands 45 easing tensions 45 tensions 45 wartime aggression 44 escalating tensions 44 Koreas 44 simmering tensions 44 bilateral ties 43 Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama 43 Seiji Maehara 43 ease tensions 43 frosty relations 43 Sino US ties 43 diplomatic ties 42 mend ties 42 heightening tensions 42 dispute 42 divided peninsula 42 Sino Japanese 42 trawler captain 42 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 42 normalize ties 41 hardline communist 41 Bilateral relations 41 trade frictions 41 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi 41 South Korea 41 Ma Ying jeou 41 nationā 40 Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda 40 inflamed tensions 40 simmering tension 40 divided Korean peninsula 40 rapprochement 40 jeou 40 detente 40 Japan 39 bilateral relations 39 nuclear ambitions 39 conciliatory gesture 39 Yukio Hatoyama 39 normalize relations 39 Prime Minister Taro Aso 39 Tensions 39 Shinzo Abe 39 Cold War foes 39 Junichiro Koizumi 39 Himalayan territory 38 tense standoff 38 Korean peninsula 38 US allied 38 defuse tensions 38 North Korea 38 Hatoyama 38 Komura 38 Xi Jinping 38 heightened tension 38 increasingly acrimonious 38 JG TC.com encourages 37 simmering feud 37 nonaggression treaty 37 Pyongyang 37 mutual distrust 37 Yasuo Fukuda 37 peace treaty 37 Korean Peninsula 37 Taiwan 37 warship Cheonan 37 nonaggression pact 37 warship sinking 37 Nobutaka Machimura 37 disputes 37 Tensions escalated 37 breakaway regions 37 severed diplomatic 37 nationalist sentiment 37 prime minister Yukio Hatoyama 37 Fukuda 37 cross strait relations 37 Globegazette.com encourages readers 37 Yomiuri newspaper 36 Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa 36 TAIPEI Taiwan Taiwan 36 standoff 36 frictions 36 China 36 mutually beneficial cooperation 36 spat 36 diplomatic relations 36 Katsuya Okada 36 bitterly contested 36 President Hu Jintao 36 Chen Shui bian 36 Korea ROK 36 Koizumi 36 fragile truce 36 increasingly assertive