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AT LEAST 2,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, after an Okinawan city set a day to commemorate Japan's 1895 integration of an island group at the centre of a territorial row with Beijing.
The rally and street demonstration in bustling Shibuya district were organised by a conservative group which has already staged several similar events in the past two months in Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka.
On Friday, the municipal assembly of Ishigaki in Okinawa passed an ordinance to mark Jan 14 as the 'Pioneering Day' of the disputed Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China.
The move drew protests from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
According to the Ishigaki city's ordinance, the memorial day is designed to 'more clearly demonstrate to the international community that the Senkaku Islands have been historically an integral part of Japanese territory and to enlighten public opinions of the (Japanese) people.' The Ishigaki municipal government has been administering the uninhabited group of rocky islands in the East China Sea.
The territorial row flared up anew in September when Japan arrested a Chinese trawler captain after a collision in the area between his boat and Japanese coastguard ships near the island group.
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