H.K. group protests over Ishihara's remarks

H.K. group protests over Ishihara's remarks

HONG KONG, China - Members of the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, an advocacy group in Hong Kong, demonstrate outside the Japanese consulate office in Hong Kong on April 19, 2012, calling for Japan to leave the islets in the East China Sea called the Senkakus in Japan. The demonstration was in response to Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's earlier announced plan for the municipality to buy the islets from a Japanese individual who claims ownership.

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