Chinese Fume Over Disputed Islands

On Septembwer 18, 2012 thousands of Chinese protested the claim that Japan has made on a chain of islands, the Diaoyu Islands.  Xi Jingping, the leader-in-waiting, urges people to stay calm, but not many have taken this urge seriously.  There have been some anti-Japanese violence, such as targeting Japanese cars and businesses.  Because of these targeting violences there has been a closer of Japanese factories, schools, shops and resteraunts.