{"id":5882,"date":"2023-06-26T14:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2023-06-26T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:18:08","slug":"japan-protests-russias-declaring-sept-3-as-day-of-victory-over-militaristic-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/japan-protests-russias-declaring-sept-3-as-day-of-victory-over-militaristic-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan protests Russia&#8217;s declaring Sept 3 as day of victory over &#8216;militaristic&#8217; Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TOKYO, June 26 &#8211; Japan has lodged a protest against Russia over the country&#8217;s decision to declare Sept. 3 a day of victory over &#8220;militaristic Japan&#8221; &#8211; a move it said would fan mutual antagonism, the top government spokesperson said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The passage of this law could not only stir anti-Japanese sentiment among the Russian people, but may also lead to anti-Russian sentiment among the Japanese people,&#8221; Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a press conference on Monday, calling Moscow&#8217;s move &#8220;extremely regrettable&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia last week renamed the commemoration day of Sept. 3 &#8211; the day after Japan&#8217;s surrender in World War Two &#8211; as the Day of Victory over Militaristic Japan, according to Japanese media reports.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, June 26 &#8211; Japan has lodged a protest against Russia over the country&#8217;s decision to declare Sept. 3 a day of victory over &#8220;militaristic Japan&#8221; &#8211; a move it said would fan mutual antagonism, the top government spokesperson said on Monday. &#8220;The passage of this law could not only stir anti-Japanese sentiment among the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,2,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}