Your Party head Watanabe

Your Party head Watanabe

TOKYO, Japan - Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 21, 2013. Watanabe announced the party's decision to terminate its alliance with the Japan Restoration Party for elections of the House of Councillors and the Tokyo metropolitan assembly in the summer of 2013, following a series of remarks by Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto regarding the system of wartime military brothels.

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