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Statue Depicting Destruction of Japan Symbol Shown in Russia

Tokyo, Sept. 5 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that a ceremony was held in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk on Friday to unveil a new statue marking Moscow's World War II victory over Japan. The ministry urged Russia through diplomatic channels to remove the statue of a Soviet troop destroying a stone marker bearing a chrysanthemum emblem, a symbol of Japan, sayi...

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