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 | A Chinese protestor hurls stones at the Japanese embassy in Beijing April 9, 2005. Chinese demonstrators smashed windows and threw stones at the Japanese embassy and businesses in Beijing on Saturday as part of protests by more than 10,000 against Japan's wartime past and its U.N. security council bid. click to open  |  | A student studies next to a statue depicting anti-Japanese movement members Wednesday April 6, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan's government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as 'poison' for whitewashing Japan's World War II atrocities. click to open |  | Skeletons believed to be of victims of Nanjing Massacre are exhibited on March 31, 2005 at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere exhorting visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job, only much faster. In recent weeks, organizers claim to have collected more than 24 million names on an Internet petition demanding that Japan be denied a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, claiming it has failed to apologize for wartime aggression against China. click to open |  | The shadow of a visitor is cast on carvings of foot prints of survivors of Nanjing Massacre on March 31, 2005 at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere. Gory photos and engraved stone tablets exhort visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job, only much faster. In recent weeks, organizers claim to have collected more than 24 million names on an Internet petition demanding that Japan be denied a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, claiming it has failed to apologize for wartime aggression against China. click to open |  | Visitors walk past a sculpture depicting a victim of Nanjing Massacre on March 31, 2005 at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere. Gory photos and engraved stone tablets exhort visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job, only much faster. In recent weeks, organizers claim to have collected more than 24 million names on an Internet petition demanding that Japan be denied a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, claiming it has failed to apologize for wartime aggression against China. click to open |  | Chinese college students are seen in this March 29, 2005 file photo signing their names on a banner to protest against Japan's bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council at Beijing Geely University. click to open |
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