I think I now understand what you were saying about that old pair of shoes, Prince of Dzun, and I retract my earlier, inappropriate accusation.
When you state "The protest was set up by the Chinese Government" I think you mean the Government facilitated (approved) it. Watching the anger on the faces of the protesters, there's little way you could seriously claim that these people were behaving in that manner beause the Government had decreed them to do so.
NZL, it's not the textbooks that are the cause of the problem.
It's the Japanese peoples' continued refusal to admit that their own soldiers perpetrated some of THE most inhumane tortures, mass rapes, and painful deaths of innocent people during the Second World War, and in countries such as China (Manchuria) and Korea prior to then, that is p!ss!ng people off.
Even THEY (the Japs) don't have the courage to come out and say, "That was then, this is now."
There are still families alive today, whose immediate relatives were directly affected.
The geisha of Japan has more than one face. BEWARE!