A number of Japanese businesses have suspended their China operations. Panasonic, Canon, Honda, Mazda and Toyota have halted their factories, while almost 200 7-eleven convenience stores have shut and Uniqlo, the clothes retailer, has removed the signs from its shop and shut its doors.
''I want to leave,'' said a Nissan executive, who declined to be named, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. ''Protests near my home were horrifying over the weekend.'
Some of the protests have been violent, while others involved vandalism, looting and arson. A man burned his Honda Civic outside one of the carmaker's showrooms in Shanghai. However, there have been no reports of serious injuries to Japanese citizens in China.