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Although the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and other
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If an Osaka company has its way, getting roaring drunk and jumping, or falling, into Dotonbori Canal after either a Hanshin Tigers victory or a wild night out in neighboring Shinsaibashi will be less risky, healthwise, but it will no longer be free.
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The leader of the opposition Your Party has indicated that he intends to renege on an agreement to cooperate with the Japan Restoration Party in the upcoming Upper House election. The decision is thought to be a result of offensive comments made by
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Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto said Sunday he doesn't believe the so-called comfort women, over whom his controversial remarks have drawn flak, were sex slaves who were unwillingly forced into service by the
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Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto Saturday defended his remarks on Japan's wartime sex slave system and criticized media outlets for running misleading reports. On a TV program, Hashimoto said he
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International condemnation of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's comment that the wartime sex slavery system was necessary continued Thursday, with the United States calling the mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader's remarks
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Osaka on Thursday offered to meet former comfort women to apologize for their suffering after causing an international storm when he said they served a necessary role in wartime. I think I have to apologize firmly for what Japan did as I talk to
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May 13, 2013 It turns out America hasn't cornered the market on reprehensible politicians. The mayor of Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, just said the 200,000 female slaves who were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II were
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Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) is losing popularity and its disarray is putting its survival beyond year's end in doubt, party coleader and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said, groping for ways to keep his group relevant and subtly
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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, coleader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), said again Friday that he won't run in this summer's Upper House election, saying his power as a Diet member would be so limited that all he'd be able to do is
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