Japanese manufacturers have temporarily closed factories in China following a spate of anti-Japan protests.
Panasonic has suspended production at two of its component factories in China
after they were attacked. It has said that its plant in Qingdao would remain shut until tomorrow and it would continue to review the situation in the upcoming days.
Atsushi Hinoki, a Tokyo-based Panasonic spokesman, told Reuters that another plant in China had also closed after several workers "sabotaged" operations in the factory.
It is also reported that Canon has moved to take similar action, suspending three of its Chinese factories.
The attacks are a part of wider protests that have spread across China after Japan said
it had agreed to a deal to buy a chain of disputed islands in the East China Sea from their private Japanese owner.
China has always claimed that it has rights to the islands - Diaoyu and Senaku - which are also claimed by Taiwan, and are rich with resources.
Although all countries involved have been rowing about who is entitled to the islands, the situation came to a head over the weekend after Tokyo announced that it had agreed to buy them.
The announcement has caused protests in China with Japanese companies and their property being damaged in the demonstrations.

Within The Spiritual and its equivalent on The Material, "China" is The Pineal whereas "Japan" is The Perfection within Humanity, oka The Right Heart. The human body being a reflection of The Divine in its "Tree of Life" aspect/infrastructure, The Pineal, seemingly situated in the centre of the brain, is actually towards the back/The Past and controls physical vision amongst its many duties. The Right Heart is located on the opposite of The Physical Heart and represents one's fatherly aspects as in The Law/Principle be it within the family, society or humanity. Nations as in lands and countries are merely myths in Reality because nobody owns anything although where you were born, that is where you have a right to existence during your sojurn within any lifetime.
Coming to this episode of "Rights", when Fuku starts Shima-ing Tojo Incorporated, there will be enough mesmerism to keep the Tag Alongs of this Tentacle of The Bookie going for a several more rounds. In fact, right up to the moment when there is nothing left, such is Insanity excused as stubborness and other [ir]rationalities. The same with the The Spectacled Plenty and their stretching of history by a few thousand odd years wherever possible. Whilst the mesmerised are deciding who own the rights to the next round of entertainment, The Bookie and His Tentacles are stirring up things through Uncle Tommy and his Kabalistic Kabin Krew. When it come to crimes, the hand of compicity will include the fence-sitters because they were of opportunity and not of morality, the partial human being the one who lacks conscience, thus denying his option to being a real human and thence Of Divinity.
Unbeknownst to the overly complex, oka The Stupid, and the overly simple, oka The Dumb, even though thoughts are spiritual [which is why humans cannot read/"see" thoughts], they are of myth/the sub-spra consciousness within The Spiritual, having been "binned" to the Mythology/Devolutionary Department of The Divine whilst awaiting their moment of final/real disposal. When it come to thoughts, they only exist within The Past or The Future, whereas the thoughts that exist/are-expressed within The Present are not thoughts but realisations, oka expressions of Intellignece, the latter being variously described as Yoga, Meditation, Dreams, Inspiration, The Eureka Moment and other aspects of real- intelligence/Intelligence. As such, for those into "Yoga", "Meditation" and "Lucid Dreams", realise too that should there be thoughts and not realisations whilst practicing your favourite pose, they are merely the momentary retirement of the minds and not the absence of the [unenlightened] minds. In short, the partial human is about The Minds whereas the fuller/full/real human is about The Realisations, the path to the latter beginning with the realisation of Self after having relinquished the [selfish/desirous of purity] self.