Chinese protesters storm Japanese embassy in Beijing

[DGambler]

I didn't see this posted anywhere and today was the first I had heard of it: http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16243293,00.html

Anti-Japan protests have broken out across China, with thousands of people mobbing the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Tensions between the two countries have risen over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea.

Thousands of protesters hurled rocks and bottles at the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, as tensions between Asia's two largest economies escalated over a row involving a disputed chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.

Also states that protesters are calling for war against Japan.

[fisharmor]

Huh, this reads just like a joke, but it appears legit.

All I gotta say is, it's probably too late for there to be any meaningful Ainu or Ryukyuan protests.....

[youngbuck]

War mongers can be found everywhere. What idiots - like a couple little, uninhabited islands are really worth the devastation that would result from war between the two countries. And obviously if war transpired between the two, it'd turn into a world war. Myopic war mongers are myopic.

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

War mongers can be found everywhere. What idiots - like a couple little, uninhabited islands are really worth the devastation that would result from war between the two countries. And obviously if war transpired between the two, it'd turn into a world war. Myopic war mongers are myopic.

It's more than just the island's. Long-standing hatred from Rape of Nanking, Unit 731, 'Comfort Women', millions dead, etc. that Japan never 'made ameliorations' for. Same reason why South Korea, Vietnam, all of Indo-China, mainland Asia really hates Japan. None of our business, really.

[DGambler]

Was going to post pictures, but this I is easier Japanese Embassy Beijing protest photos

Also read that a couple of Sony plants were destroyed.

[american.swan]

After World War II, Japan, South Korea, and China have had childish island/rock disputes. I live in South Korea so this is rather weekly discussion over here for years. In South Korea's case, South Korea has an outpost on a rock in the ocean. Japan claims it was wrongfully taken by South Korea after WWII. Japan has a couple islands owned by a family China claims. Recently Japan decided to buy the islands from the family. China is pissed.

The supposed tensions have risen in South Korea also with the SK President visiting these rocks. Japan doesn't appreciate it. In this case, there's a right wing political group in Japan that wants the "rocks" back, but Japanese as a whole tend to ignore the rocks and knows little about them. In South Korea it's national pride is based on these rocks because it was a colony of Japan from about 1905 to 1945.

The USA claims to be impartial in these childish rock/island disputes. Have you ever known that to be the case? Behind the scenes who knows what is really happening. Probably nothing good.

[donnay]

Global Chaos! *SIGH*

[Brian Coulter]

It's more than just the island's. Long-standing hatred from Rape of Nanking, Unit 731, 'Comfort Women', millions dead, etc. that Japan never 'made ameliorations' for. Same reason why South Korea, Vietnam, all of Indo-China, mainland Asia really hates Japan. None of our business, really.

This is no shit. 20 some odd years ago I had a job in Chinese restaurant. Some Japanese fellas came in for lunch and I was asked to take their orders even though their table that was not in my section because the Chinese waiter refused.

[FindLiberty]

...must protect Toyota.

[oyarde]

If anyone in China is still alive that lived there , 72 years or so ago , yeah, they are going to hate Japan.....