The Kremlin on Tuesday refused a request from Japan to dismantle or modify a new World War 2 memorial in the city of Khabarovsk that some Japanese found offensive because it incorporates the 16-petal chrysanthemum crest from the Imperial Seal of Japan.
The statue, unveiled on Friday, is about 50 feet tall and depicts a Soviet soldier using his rifle butt to shatter a border marker. Similar border stones once marked the division between Russian and Japanese territory on the contested island of Sakhalin, which was split between the two countries by the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
Japan later gained complete control over…
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