- Title: CHINA: Chinese protest against Japan on invasion anniversary
- Date: 18th September 2012
- Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 18, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING IN FRONT OF JAPANESE EMBASSY JAPANESE NATIONAL FLAG FLYING STAINS ON EMBASSY GATE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HURLING BOTTLES AND OTHER OBJECTS POLICE GRABBING A PROTESTER POLICE MOVING PROTESTER ALONG RIOT POLICE RUNNING BEHIND BARRICADE PROTESTERS WALKING WITH FLAGS AND BANNERS PROTESTERS THROWING BOTTLES AND OTHER OBJECTS
- Embargoed: 3rd October 2012 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: China
- Country: China
- Topics: International Relations,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA81TO3FQL7HETROB6327AZRV80
- Story Text: Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Tuesday (September 18) morning to voice their anger over island disputes in the East China Sea.
Some protesters threw water bottles at the building and shouting anti-Japan slogans, which was protected by a heavy police presence, Reuters witnesses said.
Authorities are expecting further escalation in protests over a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies on Tuesday, which marks the anniversary of Japan's 1931 occupation of parts of mainland China.
Hundreds of Japanese businesses and the country's embassy suspended services in China on Tuesday, expecting further escalation in violent protests over a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies.
China's worst outbreak of anti-Japan sentiment in decades led to protests and attacks on Japanese companies such as car makers Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co, forcing them to halt operations and prompting Chinese state media to warn that trade relations could deteriorate.
Tensions were also high out at sea, around the disputed group of uninhabited islets at the centre of the dispute. The islands, called the Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China contain potentially large gas reserves.
A flotilla of around 1,000 Chinese fishing boats are reported by Chinese and Japanese media to be converging on the area raising the risk that an accident could worsen the situation.
Japan said a Chinese fishing patrol boat had broadcast a radio message declaring the waters to be Chinese territory and asking Japanese Coast Guard vessels to leave. It was not clear how many of the Chinese boats had reached the area. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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