China goes cray cray over Diaoyu Islands and brings hatred towards Japan even more.

[Shana09 5,769]

BEIJING (AP) — Security personnel tightened their guard of the Japanese Embassy on Sunday as crowds of Chinese continued to protest in the capital and across the country in sometimes violent demonstrations over islands claimed by both nations. Japan's leader said the dispute was affecting the safety of Japanese citizens inChina.

Rows of paramilitary police lined the perimeter of the embassy in Beijing as police let protesters in groups of up to 100 walk past the building. Many protesters threw items such as water bottles, bananas, tomatoes and eggs at the embassy and chanted that the disputed East China Sea islands, which are controlled by Japan, belong to China. Dozens carried portraits of Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, who is often used as a rallying symbol. One man draped the Japanese flag over his dog.

Riot police stood on nearby streets, and around 20 of their vehicles were parked behind the embassy.

Security forces wearing helmets and carrying shields fired tear gas into crowds of people in Shenzhen city in southern Guangdong province. Some protesters picked up smoking tear gas canisters and hurled them back in the direction of the security forces. Protesters also overturned a police vehicle and smashed its window. No one was reported injured.

Over 10,000 people marched in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said. Its Guangzhou office reported a small number of protesters broke into a hotel next to the Japanese Consulate and smashed windows and a Japanese restaurant, and that police detained several people for damaging property. Police in Guangzhou were asking the public to use their camera phones to record people smashing property and offer the evidence to police, Xinhua said.

In Shanghai, hundreds of protesters across from the main gate of the Japanese Consulate chanted and waved banners. About 50 paramilitary police officers stood outside. Police cordoned off the street and were allowing people to protest in groups of 50 for about five to 10 minutes before escorting them away.

Nearly 4,000 people demonstrated in the capital of China's tropical Hainan island, and largely peaceful protests occurred in seven other cities in the north, south and east "with few instances of looting and car smashing," Xinhua reported. Some restaurants and stores selling Japanese goods closed and hung up Chinese flags as protesters approached, it said.

Anti-Japanese sentiment, never far from the surface in China, has been building for weeks, touched off by moves by Tokyo and fanned by a feverish campaign in Chinese state media. Passions grew more heated this past week after Japan's government purchased the contested East China Sea islands — called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan — from their private Japanese owners.

"We will not stand passively by and allow our territory and sovereignty to be invaded," a female voice said over loudspeakers broadcasting government messages in streets near the embassy. They urged people to obey the law and not to "disturb the social order."

Many of the protesters were in their 20s and 30s, but older people and families also took part.

On Saturday, protesters turned out in more than two dozen cities across China. Thousands gathered in Beijing in front of the embassy, where people burned Japanese flags and clashed with Chinese paramilitary police before order was restored.

The embassy said Saturday that protesters around the country had set fire to Japanese factories, sabotaged assembly lines, looted department stores and illegally entered Japanese businesses. In Qingdao city on the east coast, protesters set fire to a Panasonic factory and Toyota dealership. In southern Changsha city, goods were looted from a Japanese department store.

"Unfortunately, this is an issue that is impacting the safety of our citizens and causing damage to the property of Japanese businesses," Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told public broadcaster NHK on Sunday. He said Japan deplored the violence, and called on both sides to share information and maintain close communications.

In a sign that the Chinese government is concerned about social disorder spreading, users of China's popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo site couldn't search for the term "anti-Japan protests" on Sunday, and censors were quickly deleting videos of protests.

Some online users said they didn't dare drive around in their Japanese cars over the weekend.

Protests also spread outside China, with hundreds of Chinese-Americans marching in San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday to demonstrate against Japan's purchase of the islands.

Further complicating matters, Japan's newly appointed ambassador to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, died Sunday, three days after collapsing near his home in Tokyo. No official cause of death was released. He had been appointed ambassador on Tuesday, and was to assume his new post next month.

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Associated Press Television producer Aritz Parra and researcher Henry Hou in Beijing, writers Eric Talmadge in Tokyo and Daisy Nguyen in Los Angeles, and photographer Eugene Hoshiko in Shanghai contributed to this report.

 

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/more-anti-japan-protests-china-over-islands-034425792.html

 

Pictures:

Demonstrations in Changsha, Hunan

A store display in Nanjing bears the sign THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA!.

A banner on a store called pattad reads: "pattad firmly defends China's right to the Diaoyu Islands. / We will give a 15% discount to customers who yell THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA! in the store / We will give a 20% discount to customers who yell JAPAN ALSO BELONGS TO CHINA!"

Demonstrations in China

Chinese protestors congregate outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing.

At an auto show, a Chinese brand car is draped in a PRC flag that reads PATRIOTIC SPENDING / BUY CHINESE GOODS.

 

a lot more here because im lazy: http://imgur.com/a/Y7oIp

 

 

China been hating Japan since the mid 1900's, BUT wow.

[Oniaku 280]

Ah, Asia, shall you never cease to amaze?

[Queen Tery 4,591]

That is A LOT of text and it is late. From you tl;dr it sounds like China needs to calm dafuq down.

[Shana09 5,769]

That is A LOT of text and it is late. From you tl;dr it sounds like China needs to calm dafuq down.

 

thats 1.2 billion people getting riled up over an island that they claim to be theirs but it isn't

[Queen Tery 4,591]

thats 1.2 billion people getting riled up over an island that they claim to be theirs but it isn't

 

Sounds like they need to break out the property deeds.... then China needs to turn it upside down.

 

 

China: ....OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Shana09 5,769]

Sounds like they need to break out the property deeds.... then China needs to turn it upside down.

 

 

China: ....OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

I think they should do it soon, before things really get worse.

 

There are even "demonstrations" in San Francisco, China Town.

 

Oh boy, china town is near where i live.

Hopefully things wont go down there.

I don't think it will be as worse as China though.

[Queen Tery 4,591]

I think they should do it soon, before things really get worse.

 

There are even "demonstrations" in San Francisco, China Town.

 

Oh boy, china town is near where i live.

Hopefully things wont go down there.

I don't think it will be as worse as China though.

 

I doubt it will get that bad, there. lol But here's hoping(that it doesn't happen, of course.)

[Weedanort 8,786]

Whoa, just because of some islands?

 

Ok, my country lost some islands, but we never did something like that.

[Col.Random 3,683]

why are the Chinese getting so upset over a few Islands. I mean, their gonna take over the world anyway >_>

[Kishira 2,854]

If it was stolen or conqured, then I'd understand. But it says they purchased it...all this built up hate over years, it seems like an excuse to vent that pent up aggression. .____.

[King Riku 2,063]

'Japan also belongs to China'? That's a little too much. China's going to dig themselves deeper and deeper into a hole. Didn't Japan purchase those islands? Why aren't the Chinese upset with the person who allowed the purchase to happen? This whole display is a bit sad really.

[kalnet 1,198]

It's a similar dispute between the Korea-Japan islands, but more extreme on this one. Always finding a way to hate on something and this is one of them.

[Shana09 5,769]

Whoa, just because of some islands?

 

Ok, my country lost some islands, but we never did something like that.

 

why are the Chinese getting so upset over a few Islands. I mean, their gonna take over the world anyway >_>

 

It's more than 'islands'.

The islands have natural oil, gases and other resources.

Every country would fight for it BUT Japan (and USA) rules over these islands, they don't believe that at all and they think it's theirs.

Another reason they are doing this because of their sheer hate for Japan and it's people. After the 'Rape of Nanking', many other Asian countries including China completely disliked and were furious against Japan.

 

 

If it was stolen or conqured, then I'd understand. But it says they purchased it...all this built up hate over years, it seems like an excuse to vent that pent up aggression. .____.

 

yup exactly that

Edited September 17, 2012 by Shana09

[Rizzyy 736]

this shit never ends does it?

[Rob 5,571]

Its not the island that makes the people, its the people in it that makes the island.

[TheApprenticeofKingMickey 3,689]

We have an extreme case of patriotism here.

[_The Door To Light_ 1,507]

'Japan also belongs to China'.

Wut.

[Weiss 8,279]

Great. It's not bad enough that almost everything says "made in china". Now China thinks that they own Japan?

[Shana09 5,769]

Great. It's not bad enough that almost everything says "made in china". Now China thinks that they own Japan?

 

Lets check the top of Japan for the label.

[Weedanort 8,786]

It's more than 'islands'.

The islands have natural oil, gases and other resources.

 

So did our islands.

[Shana09 5,769]

So did our islands.

 

Yeah, that's why?

[Think Pink 1,967]

We have an extreme case of patriotism here.

 

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EXTREME PATRIOTISM

 

 

 

[Shana09 5,769]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EXTREME PATRIOTISM

 

 

 

 

THIS IS UR COMMENT

[Think Pink 1,967]

THIS IS UR COMMENT

 

I spared everyone from a political rant

are you trying to provoke me

[Shana09 5,769]

I spared everyone from a political rant

are you trying to provoke me

 

bring ur rant betch