Toru Hashimoto
May 18, 2013
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...
May 18, 2013
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...
May 18, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara, who co-leads the Japan Restoration Party with Toru Hashimoto, criticized Hashimoto for saying that Japan must admit what it did in World War II was an act of ...
May 17, 2013
An emerging Japanese nationalist political party whose co-leader outraged many with remarks about Japan's wartime and modern sexual services became embroiled in more...
May 17, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 17 hit back at U.S. criticism of his remarks on "comfort women" by accusing the United States of using Japanese women to provide sex for...
May 16, 2013
OSAKA--Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto qualified some of his controversial remarks on wartime military brothels and ways to satisfy lustful U.S. servicemen in an attempt at damage...
May 16, 2013
OSAKA--Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 15 tried to clarify his remarks about front-line brothels for Japanese troops before and during World War II and his proposal for U.S....
May 16, 2013
A multipartisan group of female lawmakers demanded that Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto retract his remark about wartime “comfort women,” saying he has embarrassed Japan and...
May 15, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto tried to counter the waves of criticism over his “comfort women” comments, but even members of the Abe administration were distancing themselves...
May 15, 2013
Outgoing South Korean Ambassador Shin Kak-soo severely criticized recent comments by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto about the necessity of having "comfort women" who were forced...
May 15, 2013
Referring to “comfort women” who provided sex to soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said “anyone can understand that...
May 14, 2013
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, stunned and flustered a U.S. military commander in Okinawa earlier this month with a suggestion that legalized...
May 13, 2013
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, said on May 13 that "comfort women" were necessary for Japanese soldiers during World War II, but then softened ...
April 11, 2013
On April 9, Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, spoke to lawmakers of his party about his personal views on the Constitution. I find them quite sensible.
April 05, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara, the co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai) and former Tokyo governor, has resumed his life as a politician after weeks of being out...
April 04, 2013
Students summoned to the principal's office at the municipal-run Higashi Senior High School in Osaka in theory have 18 options to choose from.
January 12, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set in motion his strategy to gain control of the Upper House--and pave the way to achieve his longtime goal of revising Japan’s pacifist...
December 07, 2012
Politicians expressed shock, shifted strategies and pointed fingers after major Japanese dailies predicted the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party would gain an outright...
December 07, 2012
The social media steamroller credited with helping Barack Obama win re-election as U.S. president is playing a bigger role than ever before in Japanese politics as the country...
December 04, 2012
Be careful what you wish for. U.S. officials have long urged Japan to loosen limits on its military, bear more of the burden of its own defense and play a more prominent global ...