Pentagon chief calls for calm in Japan-China territorial spat

Pentagon
chief calls for calm in Japan-China territorial spat
Leon
Panetta called for diplomatic efforts to resolve a worsening territorial spat
between Japan and China on Monday, the day after warning disputes could draw
East Asia into war.

China protests:
Panasonic suspends some operations
Japanese electronics maker
Panasonic has suspended some of its operations in China after anti-Japan
protesters attacked two of its factories. The firm said its factory in Qingdao
will remain shut until 18 September. According to media reports, Canon has also
suspended operations at three of its Chinese factories. 

Japan PM Noda
urges China to prevent anti-Japan violence
China must take steps
to prevent violence against Japanese citizens, Japanese Prime Minster Yoshihiko
Noda has said. Anti-Japanese protests spread to cities across China on Saturday
in an escalating row over disputed islands in the East China Sea. On Sunday,
hundreds of protesters faced off against riot police at the Japanese embassy in
Beijing.  

Anti-Japan
protests in China grow, turn violent
Protests against Japan for
its control of disputed islands swelled across more than a dozen cities in China
and at times turned violent Saturday, with protesters hurling rocks at the
Japanese Embassy and clashing with Chinese paramilitary police before order was
restored. Thousands of protesters gathered in front of the embassy in Beijing.