{"id":64164,"date":"2024-05-18T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/yonaguni-island-japan-taiwan-china-relations"},"modified":"2024-05-18T05:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:00:46","slug":"the-quiet-japanese-island-paradise-on-the-frontline-of-growing-taiwan-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64164","title":{"rendered":"The quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yonaguni is a tourist hotspot \u2013 but its location just 100km from Taiwan means residents must wrestle with the creeping militarisation of their home<\/p>\n<p>In the minds of many Japanese people, Yonaguni is a sleepy paradise of crystal-clear sea and pristine beaches, where miniature horses graze on clifftops and empty roads dissect fields of sugar cane; where tourists dive with hammerhead sharks and marvel at the <em>Ayamihabiru<\/em> \u2013 the world\u2019s largest Atlas moth.<\/p>\n<p>But this tiny island, located far closer to Taipei than Tokyo, now finds itself at the centre of regional tensions triggered by a new round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/27\/chinese-jets-fly-sorties-over-taiwan-strait-in-show-of-force-as-us-delegation-departs\">Chinese aggression towards Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/yonaguni-island-japan-taiwan-china-relations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yonaguni is a tourist hotspot \u2013 but its location just 100km from Taiwan means residents must wrestle with the creeping militarisation of their homeIn the minds of many Japanese people, Yonaguni is a sleepy paradise of crystal-clear sea and pristine bea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64165,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64164\/revisions\/64165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}