Press Interpreter

04/10/05--Mingpao News Special Report: A fire of anti-Japanese sentiment was ignited yesterday in Beijing. Several tens of thousands of residents walked twenty kilometers in six hours as part of a mass demonstration that ended at the Japanese embassy. The demonstrators were protesting the changes in Japanese history books and the Japanese occupation of the Diaoyu Islands. They called for a boycott of Japanese goods and demanded a complete end to Japan’s ambition of becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council. The angry mob burnt and tore Japanese flags, and threw rocks, water bottles and eggs at the Japanese embassy, shattering the glass of the reception room. Up until the evening the crowd had not yet dispersed entirely.

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[Mingpao News is a major Hong Kong newspaper]

--Translated by Joseph McMullin

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