Some 30,000 anti-Japanese demonstrators took to the streets in two southern Chinese cities on Sunday, just a day after thousands of protesters damaged the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.

According to Japanese officials, more than 3,000 demonstrators encircled the hotel housing the Japanese Consulate General in the city of Guangzhou.

Holding banners and chanting anti-Japanese slogans denouncing Tokyo's bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, the protesters marched from a square in the center of the province's capital to the Japanese consulate, consular officials said.

Some hurled plastic bottles and other objects at the building, breaking the windows of a Japanese restaurant, they said.