Ishihara retracts controversial comments

Ishihara retracts controversial comments

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara answers a question at an upper house environment committee meeting in Tokyo on June 19, 2014. Ishihara retracted his controversial remarks suggesting payments to local authorities would ultimately settle the issue of where to store nuclear-contaminated soil from crisis-hit Fukushima Prefecture, after opposition parties demanded his resignation.

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