Tokyo Protests Blast China's Response to Collision

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Thousands of demonstrators marched through Tokyo's central shopping districts in an unusual display of nationalistic fervor, harshly criticizing China, and the Japanese government's handling of a recent territorial dispute Saturday afternoon.

"We need to send our will to the Japanese government," said Toshio Tamogami, the former chief of staff of Japan's Air Defense Force and the head of Ganbare Nippon, the group that organized Saturday's event. "Japan should have arrested the ship captain based on international law, but they [China] knows Japan wouldn't do such a thing, so we are being underestimated," he said in an interview after his speech.

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