2 Japanese Protesters Attack Soviet Embassy
Associated Press
TOKYO —
Two right-wing protesters crashed their jeep into the Soviet Embassy’s gate Monday, slightly injuring a policeman guarding the embassy, police said. The protesters were arrested.
A police official said the protesters belong to a group that has demanded the return of the four Kuril islands seized from Japan by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
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