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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:04 PM Sep 2012

NHK - Japanese firms halt operations in China



Published on Sep 18, 2012 by NHKReloaded

NHK World News ---- Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai

Description -- A number of Japanese-affiliated firms have halted operations in China on Tuesday over concerns that anti-Japanese protests could flare up. The day marks the 81st anniversary of an incident that led to Japan's 1931 invasion of Manchuria.

A series of anti-Japanese demonstrations followed the Japanese government's purchase of 3 of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea from a Japanese owner earlier in the month.

Japanese automaker Honda decided to stop assembly lines at all its 5 plants in China, including one in Guangzhou City, on Tuesday and Wednesday. Nissan's 2 plants in Zhengzhou City in Henan Province will remain closed for 2 days through Tuesday. Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Suzuki have also halted production at some of their Chinese plants.

Other Japanese manufacturers including Canon, Casio, Yamaha and Lion have suspended operations at some of their Chinese factories.

Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics has asked Japanese employees to stay at home and is allowing only Chinese staff to work at its plant in the capital Beijing.

Japanese supermarket operators also decided to temporarily close outlets in China. Ito-Yokado provisionally shut all 15 stores in Chengdu City in Sichuan Province and other locations. Aeon closed 30 outlets in Guangdong Province and other places.

Japanese apparel giant Fast Retailing, which operates leading casual clothing chain Uniqlo, closed 42 stores in Beijing and other locations.
Sep. 18, 2012 - Updated 04:29 UTC (13:29 JST)


- Might I suggest the possibility that when the people can be easily distracted by dancing an old, old enemy in their faces, they get to blow off the steam that they really have for their own incompetent and crooked leaders.....

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Japan's Ambassador To China Dies Amid Rising Tensions DeSwiss Sep 2012 #1
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
1. Japan's Ambassador To China Dies Amid Rising Tensions
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:11 AM
Sep 2012
Japan's new ambassador to China has died, only five days after being appointed to the post and as relations between the two Asian neighbours sink to new lows.


[font color=gray]Shinichi Nishimiya, Japan's new ambassador to China, as found collapsed on a street in Tokyo on Thursday morning but died in hospital on Sunday Photo: REUTERS[/font]

The Telegraph
By Julian Ryall
6:22AM BST 17 Sep 2012

Shinichi Nishiyama, 60, was found collapsed on a street in Tokyo on Thursday morning but died in hospital on Sunday. Police in Japan have ruled out foul play but hospital authorities have yet to confirm the cause of Nishiyama's death.

An experienced and long-serving diplomat, Nishiyama was scheduled to take up his post in Beijing in the next few weeks. His first order of business was to have been measures to calm the growing ill-feeling between the two nations over the disputed islands that Japan marks on its maps as the Senkakus but which China claims and calls the Diaoyu chain.

Tokyo nationalised the entire chain earlier this month by purchasing three of the five islands not already under state control from the Japanese family that owned them.

As many as 100,000 people took part in protests in at least 85 cities across China on Sunday, with demonstrators clashing with riot police outside Japanese consulate in Guangzhou.

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- No, I don't find this death the least bit suspicious.......

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