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.

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