Residents oust Toyosato mayor over bid to demolish school

Residents oust Toyosato mayor over bid to demolish school

OTSU, Japan - Wasaburo Ono, mayor of the town of Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, speaks to reporters on March 9 after residents in a referendum voted to recall him and have a new mayoral election over an aborted plan to demolish a school building designed by an American architect and designated as a heritage.

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