Violent Protests in China Over Japan Island Row

Thousands demonstrated in several cities in China, calling for a boycott of all Japanese products, burning Japanese flags, and damaging Japanese restaurants and vehicles after Tokyo last week deported 14 Chinese activists who landed on a disputed island in the East China Sea.
Violent Protests in China Over Japan Island Row
A group of protesters pelt a Japanese restaurant (R) with plastic bottles as they attend a rally against Japan's claim of islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in Hangzhou in China's Zhejiang province on August 19, 2012. (STR/AFP/GettyImages)
Jack Phillips
8/19/2012
Updated:
10/1/2015
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