Similar protests took place on Saturday and Uichiro Niwa, the present Japanese
ambassador to Beijing, has called on the Chinese government to take all
possible measures to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals and the
property of Japanese companies in China.
Koichiro Gemba, the Japanese foreign minister, cut short an overseas trip to
convene a meeting of senior ministry officials to draw up measures to deal
with the largest and most widespread protests in China since the two nations
normalised diplomatic relations in 1972.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has responded by saying it is attempting to
defuse the situation and has asked its citizens to “express their
demands in a legal and rational way.”
In an editorial, the state-run Xinhua news agency said the Japanese government
needs to “take note of mainstream Chinese public opinion, as voiced in
these protests, and think twice about their illegal activities.”
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