Japan ultra right activists hold rally at Itar-Tass office in Tokyo

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TOKYO, August 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Japanese ultra right activists have
staged a protest action at an Itar-Tass office in Tokyo on Sunday. Six
buses carrying the flags of the Japanese imperial army and anti-Russian
posters stopped at the Itar-Tass office building and the Japanese ultra
right activists were crying out anti-Russian slogans through the loud
speakers.
Mixing anti-Russian slogans with dirty words the Japanese ultra right
activists in the military uniform were crying out such slogans as "Let's
capture all the Kuriles and southern Sakhalin back from Russia!" and
"Russians, out of Japan!"
A Japanese ultra right activist was even attempting to get on the
fence surrounding the Itar-Tass office building. The police was called up
to break up the protest action.
The rally was reportedly timed to the 65th anniversary of the Soviet
Union joining the war against the militaristic Japan marked on August 9.
The Japanese ultra right forces stage regularly noisy rallies at the
Russian Embassy in Tokyo. However, the protest action at the Itar-Tass
office in Tokyo is the first one since the Soviet times.
Then the ultra right activists staged regular rallies at the Itar-Tass
office and were even attempting to break into the building. In the early
eighties of the previous century an activist of the Japanese nationalistic
groups even hurled an incendiary bottle that burnt down in the yard at the
Itar-Tass office and did not damage the building.
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