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BBC

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Chinese city of Shanghai in the latest in a series of anti-Japanese demonstrations.
Protesters carrying Chinese flags surrounded the Japanese consulate throwing stones and other missiles.

They are angry at Japan's approval of school textbooks which they say play down Japanese wartime atrocities.

The protests were condemned as "extremely regrettable" by the Japanese foreign minister, who is due to visit.

Nobutaka Machimura said he would "strongly protest" against the anti-Japanese protests when he arrives in Beijing on Sunday, in a visit aimed at defusing the tensions.

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