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[quote=MARRIE,407565]The events were much smaller than the 2005 anti-Japan protests that turned
violent in some Chinese cities. Police had been on high alert around the embassy
and the Japanese consulate in Shanghai over potential violence.

"We believe the Chinese people will express themselves in a rational manner,"
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement issued
Saturday.

In Hong Kong, Albert Ho, chairman of the territory's Democratic Party, urged his
"compatriots not to forget the past Japanese invasion and atrocities committed
during World War II" as about 300 people marched in protest to Japan's control
of the Senkaku Islands, known in China as Diaoyu and in Taiwan as Tiaoyutai.

"We call upon our people to understand that this Diaoyu Islands issue is also a
symbol of unlawful Japanese occupation of our territory," Ho said.

The protesters burned a self-made Japanese military flag and read out a petition
letter to be sent to the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong after reaching the
office that was closed on weekends A Chinese onlooker at the initial Beijing
protest said she hopes the new Japanese Cabinet launched Friday will make a
"wise political decision" to solve the latest row by releasing the Chinese ship
captain, 41-year-old Zhan Qixiong.
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