Nissan’s China Sales Slow Down Due to Row with Japan Over Territorial Dispute
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Nissan’s China Sales Slow Down Due to Row with Japan Over Territorial Dispute



Over the past few months, a series of anti-Japan protests begun in China and Hong Kong after Japanese activists landed on an East China Sea island called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese, and which is a subject of territorial dispute between the two countries.

Nissan was the first to acknowledge that its sales in the world’s biggest market might have been hurt by the Chinese reaction to the incident.

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