The Wall Street Journal
By BRIAN SPEGELE in Beijing
August 19, 2012
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Reuters
Protesters holding banners, placards and Chinese national flags, march down a street during an anti-Japan protest in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday.
BEIJING—Anti-Japanese protests flared across China, including in front of Japan's diplomatic consulates, as Japanese activists successfully landed on the disputed Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.
More than 1,000 demonstrators in Chinas' southern city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, paraded through the city's streets on Sunday, waving Chinese flags and calling for the government to defend the country's territorial claims. Japan controls the islands, also claimed by China and Taiwan, which call them Diaoyu.
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