Television stations showed one car in the neighborhood damaged by gunfire and another apparently set on fire.
Small-scale looting began, and several stores were apparently set on fire.
Photographs circulating online purport to show a burning Japanese-made car in Shanghai, apparently set on fire by its owner, with anti-Japanese banners in the background.
Of more concern is the steady trickle of lone men apparently set on blowing themselves up with their targets.
In Tehran on April 14th, 300 university students marched on the German embassy, apparently set on storming it, but, held back by the cohorts of Iranian policemen guarding it, they contented themselves with hurling stones at the embassy wall and trying to tear down a German flag.
Ed Miliband's first seven weeks have seen him doing better than his foes predicted, but he continues to cut a lonely figure: apparently set on a promising kind of modernised social democracy, readying himself for a blank-page policy review, and strafed by hostile fire.
