Thousands of protesters in two southern Chinese cities marched on a Japanese consulate on Sunday and threw paint and bottles at businesses selling Japanese goods, a day after anti-Tokyo demonstrations in Beijing turned violent. The protests in Guangzhou province were the latest eruption of anger at what many Chinese see as Tokyo's whitewashing of World War Two atrocities and its bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. On Saturday, an estimated 10,000 people gathered at Japan's embassy and the ambassador's residence, throwing rocks, bottles and eggs in the biggest public outpouring of anger against foreigners since the 1998 NATO bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade. Hong Kong's Cable TV said several thousand people marched in the provincial capital of Guangzhou, with some protesters trying to break through a police barricade outside Japan's consulate and others hurling things at Japanese restaurants and shops. In the nearby city of Shenzhen on the border with Hong Kong, a group of about 500 demonstrators marched in downtown shopping districts. On Sunday, China's Foreign Ministry appealed to protesters to be "calm and sane". "Some people in Beijing organised a demonstration themselves in protest against the wrong attitude and practice Japan had taken recently on the issue of its history of aggression," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang as saying. --More 2158 Local Time 1858 GMT
