Japan police disperse rally at Itar-Tass office in Tokyo.

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TOKYO, August 8 (Itar-Tass) -- The Japanese police are patrolling the
area around the Itar-Tass office building, where the ultra right held a
protest action earlier in the day. All is calm around the Itar-Tass office
building; no more attempts at disorders are made.
Six buses carrying the flags of the Japanese imperial army and
anti-Russian posters arrived at 3 pm local time (10 am Moscow time) 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
that dispersed the protest action.
The rally was reportedly timed to the 65th anniversary of the Soviet
Union joining the war against the militarist Japan marked on August 9. The
Japanese ultra right forces stage regular 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 nationalist
group 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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