Demonstrators raise placards with sanitary napkins and defaced pictures of Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, as they chant slogans during a protest on the 81st anniversary of Japan's invasion of China, outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing September 18, 2012.REUTERS/David Gray
BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, forcing Japanese firms in the country to suspend operations, as a crisis over a territorial dispute escalated on the anniversary of Japan's pre-war invasion of its giant neighbour.
Relations between Asia's two biggest economies faltered badly on the anniversary, with emotions running high on the streets and also out at sea where two Japanese activists landed on an island at the centre of the dispute.
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