Sex slavery row costs Hashimoto electoral cooperation

Sex slavery row costs Hashimoto electoral cooperation

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto, who doubles as Osaka mayor, listens to a reporter's question at the Osaka city offices in western Japan on May 21, 2013. The small opposition Your Party decided the same day to cancel planned electoral cooperation with the Japan Restoration Party, following controversial remarks by Hashimoto concerning wartime sexual servitude.

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