Chinese boycott Japanese products

BEIJING: Some Chinese shops have stopped selling selected Japanese goods in protest against Tokyo's approval of a school history book they say whitewashes Japan's militaristic past, an industry official said yesterday. 

Many Chinese fume at what they see as Japan's failure to own up to atrocities committed during its occupation of China from 1931 to 1945. Beijing estimated that up to 35 million Chinese were killed or wounded by invading Japanese troops.