A group of demonstrators, holding a banner which reads "Down with Japanese Militarism", chant slogans outside the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong May 26. Hong Kong and Taiwan, organisers of a challenge to Tokyo's claim to the East China Sea archipelago of Diaoyu Islands, also known as the Senkakus in Japan, ended their high-seas protest on Monday after facing an impenetrable force of Japanese coast guard boats.

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