SHANGHAI (Kyodo) China's largest-ever car exhibition opened to the public Friday amid heightened security for six major Japanese automakers.
Despite recent hostility toward Japanese products, the six carmakers put their latest China-targeted models on display and are anticipating growing sales in 2005.
Bracing for demonstrations against Japanese cars on display at the Shanghai International Convention center, located in the same city where about 20,000 people protested and vandalized Japanese property last weekend, about 200 more security guards than usual watched the exhibits while police patrolled outside the venue.