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Japanese factories have been temporarily closed in China and expatriate workers have been advised to stay indoors after angry protests over the ownership of islands in the East China Sea have come onto the streets. In China, violent attacks were reported on well-known Japanese businesses such as car-makers Toyota and Honda in the country’s worst outbreak of anti-Japan sentiment in decades. According to the Daily Mail, the dispute over the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, now threatens to seriously damage trade ties between Asia ’s two biggest economies with Chinese state media warning that trade relations are in jeopardy. Protesters marched during an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen in south China 's Guangdong province as Japan has planned to ‘nationalize’ the disputed islands “I’m not going out today and I've asked my Chinese boyfriend to be with me all day tomorrow,” Sayo Morimoto, a 29-year-old Japanese graduate student at a university in Shenzhen, said. Japanese housewife and mother Kayo Kubo, who lives in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou , said her family and other Japanese expats were also staying home after being terrified by the scale and mood of the weekend protests in dozens of cities. “There were so many people and I've never seen anything like it. It was very scary,” she said. According to the report, the weekend’s protests not only targeted Japanese diplomatic missions, but also shops, restaurants and car dealerships in at least five cities. Toyota and Honda said protestors had badly damaged their stores in the eastern port city of Qingdao at the weekend. Japanese electronics group Panasonic said one of its plants had been sabotaged by Chinese workers and would remain closed through tomorrow. Many Japanese schools across China , including in Beijing and Shanghai, have cancelled classes this week.

Senkaku row: Attacks on Japanese businesses in China; expatriates advised to stay indoors