[Beginning on April 18, 2005, The Yomiuri Shimbun ran a 21-part series on “Planning National Strategies - Resources and Energy,” highlighting Japan's resource anxieties in the context of rising China-Japan tensions over issues that include the struggle for scarce oil and other natural resource and the voracious quest for energy by Japan's rapidly growing neighbor. The conflict is set within a global milieu in which oil prices soar to %50-60 a barrel, the consumption of China, India, the U.S. and a number of other powers continues to soar, and nations seek to secure access to oil and national gas supplies that show strong signs of reaching a tipping point at which demand exceeds supply. The Yomiuri is Japan's, and the world's, largest newspaper, a generally conservative paper with a daily print of around 11 million copies. We present four articles from the series. Japan Focus.]