# Comicomment | Japan stages a victimhood show over WWII monument

https://mins.news/en/item/63653

- China News Service, 2026-09-18 02:40 UTC
- World
- Original: http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/comicomment/2026-09-18/detail-ihfkhtke4053530.shtml

> A monument commemorating victory over Japanese militarism was unveiled in Khabarovsk, Russia, showing a Soviet soldier smashing a border post marked with Japan’s imperial chrysanthemum. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi protested and demanded its removal, while Russia dismissed the reaction as absurd. The commentary calls Japan’s response a political show that portrays an attack on an aggressor’s marker as an affront to national dignity.

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