Japan digs in, suspends services to China

The territorial dispute between China and Japan over tiny uninhabited islands in the East China Sea continues to escalate. Mass anti-Japan protests in China lead to the Japanese suspending businesses and embassy services in China.?

By Reuters / September 17, 2012

Workers at a Japanese restaurant cover up the shop front with Chinese national flags and red clothes ahead of major protests expected on Tuesday in Beijing, China, Monday. Chinese are trying to hurt Japan economically for leverage in a bitter dispute over contested islands, turning to angry protests and calls for boycotts of Japanese businesses, abetted in part by China's government.

Ng Han Guan/AP

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Hundreds of Japanese businesses and the country's embassy suspended services in?China?on Tuesday, expecting further escalation in violent protests over a territorial dispute between?Asia's two biggest economies.

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China's worst outbreak of anti-Japan?sentiment in decades led to protests and attacks on Japanese companies such as car makers Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co, forcing them to halt operations and prompting Chinese state media to warn that trade relations could deteriorate.

More protests are expected across?China?on Tuesday, which marks the anniversary of?Japan's 1931 occupation of parts of mainland?China.

Hundreds of protesters had gathered outside?Japan's embassy?again on Tuesday, some throwing water bottles at the building, which was protected by a heavy police presence, Reuters witnesses said.

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