Chinese protest at Japan embassy in Vietnam
Arab Times, Middle East - 17th Apr 2005
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/breakingnews/view.asp?msgID=8659
HANOI (Reuters) - About 50 people held a protest outside the Tokyo's embassy in Vietnam's capital on Sunday, shouting anti-Japanese slogans and demanding Japanese leave the country.
The protesters, wearing headbands and holding a large banner written in English and Chinese characters, stood on the sidewalk in front of the embassy and shouted slogans through a loud hailer. One banner read: "Japan out".
The protesters are believed to be Chinese living in Vietnam.
Police and local militia stood nearby, holding back a small crowd of onlookers. Protests are rare in communist Vietnam.
The demonstration comes after successive weekends of violent protests in China over Japan's wartime past.
The Chinese are furious at a revised Japanese school textbook they say whitewashes atrocities during Japan's 1931-45 occupation of China and at Tokyo's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.