The consequences of a territorial dispute over a group of islands in the East China Sea seem to become more serious as anti-Japanese sentiments grow stronger in China.
On Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda demanded that the Chinese government ensures the safety of Japanese citizens in the country after thousands of protesters took to the roads. Although most of the demonstrations were peaceful, Toyota and Panasonic reported damages caused by fire set in their Qingdao city facilities.
Moreover, sales of Japanese models in the world’s biggest car market have fallen in August while those of German, U.S. and South Korean manufacturers increased by more than 10 percent.
Earlier this month Nissan was the first to note a drop in its Chinese sales and be advised by local authorities to “tone down” its marketing activities due to the protests.
"This is another blow for the global economy", said former Morgan Stanley chief Asia economist Andy Xie. "The costs for China may be less but it could be worse for Japan as the bright spot for the economy has been the auto industry."
According to the China News Service, Toyota chairman Fujio Cho plans to visit China on September 22 along with other Japanese car manufacturers’ representatives. They will meet with government officials and visit Chinese cities in an effort to lessen the impact of anti-Japanese protests.
"The Toyota chairman and the delegation of Japanese company executives he will lead want to express goodwill for the Chinese government and Chinese consumers, but it is unknown whether Chinese consumers will accept it", said the Beijing-based news agency.
Tensions rose after Japan's cabinet approved the purchase of the privately-owned islands for US$26 million on September 11 and the Chinese responded by sending some of its vessels near what it calls the Diaoyu, and the Japanese the Sensaku, islands.
Most of the demonstrations were peaceful, but things could escalate as Hong Kong activists will sail to the islands on September 18. The date is significant because it marks the anniversary of the Manchurian Incident in 1931 when Japan invaded northeast China.
By Andrew Tsaousis
Story References: Bloomberg
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Well this anger by the Chinese was expected & understandable since Japan & Japanese people has continued to lie about their WW2 crimes against humanity of killing more than 20 to 30 million people all over Asia in their invasions, & even today continue to teach false history to their children in schools, teaching them that they were the victims of WW2 & not the agressors, & even whitewashing their crimes from their student text books so that the dirty crimes against humanity committed by their emperor & the royal family would not be known.Imagine what all the counrties in Europe would do if Germany also continued to whitewash their history books like Japan, & taught false history to their children telling them that Germany was the victim of WW2, & if Hitler was not punished just like the Japanese Emperor & the rest of the Japanese royal family escaped punishment? No wonder why the United Nations already passed resolutions against Japan telling them to stop lying about their war crimes & teaching false history to their children. Not surprised at all by the uproar by the Chinese sparked by this territory issue. All of Asia feels the same way about Japan. Underneath a smiling & gentle fake facade Japan is a criminal country that still refuses to admit its crimes against humanity & continues to lie & disrespect its neighbors. Imagine if Germany acted the same way as Japan does today to its neighboring countries... The cowardly Japanese only have themselves to blame.
Oh well another Chinese government tactics to mobilize the ignorant masses for whatever their agenda is..
You seem to hate Japan. It's OK, but don't write wrong things.
Have you ever read Japanese History textbooks?
And don't you know what Japanese are taught in the school.
"Japanese Army did cruel things for asian countries in WW2."
This sentence is written in almost all history textbooks, so
almost all Japanese people are taught the "true" history, and
also know the neighbor countries of Japan teach the "wrong" and
"anti-Japan" history to their people.
What is the "lie" of Japanese?
I hope you to see the world without anti-Japan policy.
ok, enough of you B.S. history lesson, what is China doing now a day?
well, let me see
1) polluting the environment
2) stealing islands
3) human right violation
4) taking everyone else jobs
5) greed..just greed.
So suddenly violent demonstrations are permissible in China if it fulfills the wishes of their corrupt, despotic government. The sad part is the people stupid enough to let themselves be dragged along by the ears by their puppetmasters. Seems to be a common phenomenon lately in many parts of the world.
Dear Hi,
If you are in Japan now, why don't you go visit Professor Jeffrey Kingston of Temple University Tokyo(History Department) & tell him what you just said to me. Sorry, but he will not agree with your funny lying nonsense. Many Japanese text books present Japan as the liberators & vicims of war instead of as invaders & aggressors. This fact is supported by even the United Nations, & they also agree that Japan has been involved in a systematic long term whitewashing of Japanese history regarding the war crimes.Learn to be honest next time. What a sad & cowardly lying Japanese boy indenial you are ^^
roundtable3 you are such a big scumbag.
I am Greek and I assure that Germany has never ever recognized the crimes they did during WW2 in Greece. (Greek holocaust kalavrita, distomo, korinthos and the list goes on, rapture of the greek gold from the central greek bank, rapture of ancient treasures).
"CIVILIZED" Germany became so powerful because of stealing weak nations.
As if sucking the marrow from the bones of Greece wasn't enough, they made a satanic plan to occupy Greece. It took them more than 30 years but they finally succeeded. All these years they were throwing money to Greece, but actually these money were going back to Germany corporations. Greece had 30 years of good standard of living, but that was a preplanned fraud. Actually you can liken the Greeks with sheep. First feed them and then slaughtered.
Greek PM Samaras had a meeting with German PM Merkel to discuss the delivery of 40 Greek islets in order to fulfill the Greek obligations.
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