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Tōru Hashimoto

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Name: Tōru Hashimoto

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 reports

Shinzo Abe

[Editorial] No compromise on Japan’s whitewashing of colonial rule

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has crossed the red line with his provocations on matters of his country’s imperial history. In a recent interview for the latest edition of the US magazine Foreign Affairs, he is quoted as urging the interviewer to ... [Published Hani.co.kr - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Shinzo Abe, Japan, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Hashimoto Argues Korean Military Used Sex Slaves

The Mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto says it's unfair to only criticize his remarks about comfort women, because the Korean military used sex slaves during the Vietnam War.According to various Japanese media sources, Hashimoto stated that Japan has responsibility ... [Published Tbs eFM - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Sex-Slavery, Military/Armed Forces, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Asahi Shimbun

Toru Hashimoto continues his reckless comments

Toru Hashimoto is showing no signs of backing down from his reckless comments about comfort women and the treatment of women during wartime.Japan's Kyodo News Agency and Asahi Shimbun reported Monday that the Osaka mayor and the co-leader of Japan's Restoration ... [Published Arirang - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Asahi Shimbun, Hiroshima, Vietnam War, Osaka

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Hashimoto hits back at disagreement polls

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (Photo:Agencies) A large majority of Japanese people disagree with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto who said women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity, polls issued Monday said.Up to 200,000 “comfort ... [Published SINA - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Sex-Slavery, Japan, Military Necessity, World War II

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Mainichi Shimbun

Politician hits back

Unbowed, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on Monday hit back at the opinion polls, criticizing their methodology."The way the Mainichi Shimbun conducted the opinion poll was unfair," he tweeted."Even though I have repeatedly said that I didn't think the comfort ... [Published CHINAdaily - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Mainichi Shimbun, Slavery

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Fuji Television Network Inc

Hashimoto's party 'faces extinction,' some media say

Silence and politics don’t mix. Politics is speech – perpetual, ceaseless speech. Small wonder if the tongue slips, or if politicians blurt out more than is good for them. The latest casualty is Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader ... [Published Japan Today - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Osaka, Fuji Television Network Inc, Japan Restoration Party, Yomiuri Shimbun

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Sex slaves, not ‘comfort women,’ Mr. Hashimoto

My father went to China during World War II. He told me about the atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army.What Toru Hashimoto said about the so-called “comfort women” is a total nonsense. He doesn’t understand the war. The Japanese Imperial Army, that ... [Published Korea Joongang Daily - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Sex-Slavery, Military/Armed Forces, Rape

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Saenuri demands Japan's rightists make apology

The leader of the ruling party demanded an apology Monday from Japanese right-wingers alleged to have made insensitive remarks about Japan’s past militarism.“Right-wing Japanese politicians, who made reckless remarks, have to immediately apologize to ... [Published Korea Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Japan Restoration Party, Tōru Hashimoto, Sex-Slavery, Osaka, Slavery

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Report: Osaka Mayor Rejects Forcibility in Wartime Sexual Slavery

Anchor: Two former sex slaves from South Korea participated in rallies in Japan over the weekend, protesting controversial remarks by some Japanese politicians regarding its wartime sexual slavery. The co-leader of the conservative Japan Restoration Party, ... [Published Korea Broadcasting System - May 20 2013]

Entities: Sex-Slavery, Slavery, Osaka, Hashimoto (Japan)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Your Party to split from Japan Restoration Party over Hashimoto's comments

TOKYO 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 ... [Published Japan Today - May 20 2013]

Entities: Japan Restoration Party, Tōru Hashimoto, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Yoshimi Watanabe

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 3 reports

Still waiting for official apologies

By Joe Hung, special to The China PostToru Hashimoto, ultranationalist mayor of Osaka, was right when he said last week Japan was not alone in using what are euphemistically called comfort women as sex slaves for soldiers. He said soldiers living with ... [Published China Post - May 20 2013]

Entities: Shintaro Ishihara, Tōru Hashimoto, Sex-Slavery

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Osaka Mayor Blames Translators For Offensive Comments

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is blaming translators and native Japanese speakers for misconstruing his recent comments on 'comfort women' and their necessity during World War II.Speaking to reporters outside of Osaka city hall today, Hashimoto said his ... [Published Tbs eFM - May 19 2013]

Entities: Osaka, Tōru Hashimoto, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan

Quotes

When the US State Department described the comments as "outrageous and offensive", Hashimoto said on Twitter: "during the period of the us occupation of japan the united states also utilised japanese women."

‘US Troops Used Japanese Sex Slaves Too,’ says Osaka Mayor Hashimoto [Published International Business Times UK - May 17 2013]

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Saenuri demands Japan's rightists make apology [Published Korea Times - May 20 2013]
71% say Hashimoto's comfort women remarks 'inap... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 20 2013]
Your Party to split from Japan Restoration Part... [Published Japan Today - May 20 2013]
Report: Osaka Mayor Rejects Forcibility in Wart... [Published Korea Broadcasting System - May 20 2013]
Still waiting for official apologies [Published China Post - May 20 2013]
Ruling party leader demands apology from right-... [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 20 2013]
Japan's Restoration Party co-leaders' finds unn... [Published Arirang - May 20 2013]
Support for Abe Cabinet slides to 70.9%: poll [Published Japan Times - May 19 2013]
Nice try, but no thanks [Published Korea Joongang Daily - May 19 2013]
Hashimoto denies 'comfort women' were sex slaves [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 19 2013]
Shame on Osaka mayor [Published Korea Times - May 19 2013]
Outgoing S. Korean ambassador blasts Hashimoto'... [Published Asahi.com - May 19 2013]
Osaka Mayor Blames Translators For Offensive Co... [Published Tbs eFM - May 19 2013]

Blogs

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Japan’s new revisionism sounds the alarm in Chi... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 17 2013] Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: Every year Japanese lawmakers make a pilgrimage to a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo. Their destination is Yasukuni — the Japanese ...
Stoking the Nationalist Fires [Published Foreign Policy BlogsForeign Policy Blogs \| The ... - May 16 2013] Just when the rhetoric on both sides seemed to be fading, last week the People’s Daily, a Chinese newspaper, ran a lengthy commentary penned by two academics challenging Japan’s sovereign rights to the Ryukyu island chain – not far from Taiwan and ...
Japanese mayor says sex slaves were ‘necessary’... [Published Raw Story - May 14 2013] Topics: Hashimoto ♦ Japanese Restoration Party ♦ Toru HashimotoThe mayor of Osaka, Japan and leader of the Japanese Restoration Party said this week that he believes the use of sex slaves during World War II, then known as “comfort women,” was “something ...
Osaka's fascist mayor defends WWII policy of se... [Published Boing Boing - May 14 2013] Toru Hashimoto is mayor of Osaka and co-founder of the Japanese Restoration Party. He's previously called for Japan to be run as a dictatorship; now he's made public comments defending the WWII Japanese military policy of enslaving women and giving ...
"For soldiers who risked their lives in circums... [Published Althouse - May 14 2013] "That's clear to anyone," said Toru Hashimoto , the mayor of Osaka, Japan. ...

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Japan mayor: Wartime prostitution was necessary [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 14 2013]