You don’t expect Japan and Taiwan to have a serious fight. The two Asian democracies have gotten along well since World War II and both are aligned with the United States on geopolitics. Each must resist China yet carefully engage the same. Not to mention the copious flows of tourists from one side to the other and Taiwanese people’s reverence for Japanese culture, from Hello Kitty to spy novels. Yet over the past week the two sides have ramped up a dispute over Japan’s claim of an exclusive economic zone around Okinotori, a tiny land mass some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo. Japan detained a Taiwanese fishing boat there April 25, angering people up to the president’s office in Taipei and prompting ...
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