Hashimoto to ask overseas media for correct reporting
OSAKA—Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is now pointing the finger at translators as well as native speakers of Japanese for the continuing criticism over his recent comments on “comfort women,” those who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II.
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Shintaro Ishihara, left, and Toru Hashimoto are co-leaders of the Japan Restoration Party. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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Shintaro Ishihara joined the chorus of criticism against fellow Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto but from a different angle: He said his political partner’s reference to Japan’s wartime aggression displayed ...
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A group of boys play together at a center for Agent Orange victims in Danang, Vietnam, in 2007. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang. (AP file photo)
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Venezuelan Amalyn Gomez has made a career for herself in Japan dancing professionally and teaching at Studio Raiz Latina in Tokyo's Roppongi district. (Daisuke Yamamoto)
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The belly dance came originally by way of the Middle East. Amalyn Gomez came from Venezuela. The two came together in Tokyo to create a new career for the young woman who once aspired to be a computer engineer.
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