BBC:
China's anti-Japan rallies spread
The protests were sparked by new Japanese schoolbooks, which many Chinese say whitewash Japan's occupation of much of China during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Critics are angered that one of the books refers to the killing of more than 250,000 civilians by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937 as an "incident", rather than the "massacre" it is known as elsewhere.
They also say it glosses over mass sex slavery of Asian women by Japanese troops.
Anti-Japanese sentiment has also been fuelled by Japan's campaign for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Many Chinese feel Japan has not yet addressed its wartime history, and as such is not fit to take up such a position of responsibility, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Beijing.
Tokyo says private companies, not the government, were responsible for the texts, and that it is up to individual school districts to decide which books they use.
I'll just say that I still remember when
The Last Emperor was aired in Japan, they cut out much of the Japanese invasion stuff. With the new textbooks, it seems like not much has changed.
I hope nobody gets hurt because of the protests though.
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