In pictures: Anti-Japan protest

1 of 8 In Shanghai, angry Chinese defied government appeals for calm to launch anti-Japanese protests.

2 of 8 Riot police kept protesters away from the Japanese consulate, but found themselves in the line of fire.

3 of 8 The police stood by as they were pelted with paint and eggs aimed at the consulate.

4 of 8 The protests were triggered by new school textbooks in Japan, which are said to play down Tokyo's wartime atrocities.

5 of 8 Outside the consulate the mood stayed defiant.

6 of 8 Japanese-made cars were overturned in the street and decorated with insulting slogans and banners.

7 of 8 Images of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi were defaced and covered with angry slogans.

8 of 8 This boy holds a banner calling for Japan to apologise for atrocities committed against China during the war.