{"id":14060,"date":"2012-09-15T03:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:09:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-15T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:09:07","slug":"Protests-turn-violent-outside-Japanese-embassy-in-China","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14060","title":{"rendered":"Protests turn violent outside Japanese embassy in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of protesters besieged the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, hurling rocks and bottles at the building as police struggled to keep control, amid growing tensions between Asia\u2019s two biggest economies over a group of disputed islands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paramilitary police with shields and batons barricaded the embassy, holding back slogan-chanting, flag-waving protesters who at times appeared to be trying to storm the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cReturn our islands! Japanese devils get out!\u201d some of the protesters shouted. One of them held up a sign reading:<\/strong> \u201cFor the respect of the motherland, we must go to war with Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protester Liu Gang, a migrant worker from the southern region of Guangxi, said: \u201cWe hate Japan. We\u2019ve always hated Japan. Japan invaded China and killed a lot of Chinese. We will never forget.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As tensions escalated, and reports emerged of other protests around China, Japan said its foreign minister had cut short a visit to Australia, arriving back in Tokyo on Saturday morning to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n

The long-standing territorial dispute escalated dramatically on Friday when China sent six surveillance ships to a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea<\/strong>, raising tensions between the two countries to their highest level since 2010.<\/p>\n

China had sent the ships in response to the Japanese government\u2019s decision on Tuesday to buy the islands, which Tokyo calls the Senkaku and Beijing calls the Diaoyu, from a private Japanese owner despite Chinese warnings against doing so.<\/p>\n

Sino-Japanese<\/strong> ties have long been plagued by China\u2019s bitter memories of Japan\u2019s military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s and present rivalry over resources and regional clout. <\/p>\n

It’s getting closer to December 21, 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source Japantoday.com<\/em>
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