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Anti-Osaka mayor stir is backed by Chinese

Three Chinese women in their 80s, abducted by the Japanese military during World War II to serve as “comfort women,” joined  local supporters yesterday to push for a disciplinary action against Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.

Li Xiumei, 86, and two other women, all of whom live in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, joined 174 Japanese citizens to submit a request to the Osaka Bar Association, to which Hashimoto belongs.

In their request the three women said that Hashimoto’s recent remarks on comfort women seriously infringed on their human rights and had caused them mental anguish.

Hashimoto has said that it was not his intention to say that women who were used for sexual purposes during wartime were “necessary,” claiming that his words were twisted by the journalists deliberately.

The three women released a statement through their Chinese and Japanese attorneys in Osaka yesterday.

They said that although the mayor was born after the war, he had hurt them with his insensitive message defending acts of aggression by the Japanese military, which invaded their country during the war.

“We ask the association to take strict action against its member Hashimoto,” the statement said.




 

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