A demonstrator, standing in front of a Taiwanese flag, burns a picture of Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto wrapped around a Japanese imperial military flag during a protest outside the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong May 27. Hong Kong and Taiwan, organisers of a challenge to Tokyo's claim to the East China Sea archipelago of Diaoyu Islands, known as the Senkakus in the Japan, ended their high-seas protest on Monday after facing an impenetrable force of Japanese coast guard boats.

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