Media Report Unnerves Japanese Business With China Operations
This piece, China protests unnerve Japanese business in today's FT, tells of how Japanese media covered the last weekend's protest in Shanghai and its implications.
The sharp deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations, compounded by blanket media coverage of angry Chinese rioters hurling missiles at Japanese targets, is damaging business sentiment towards China, according to Japan's External Trade Organisation.
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"Unfortunately, Japanese coverage of the riots has been very sensationalist, so the parent companies' risk management teams have been getting in touch with their people in China and setting off a chain reaction," Mr Washio said. "Now everyone has become a little bit more nervous."
