Following the split of the country's second-largest opposition party, the Japan Restoration Party (JRP), with the two splinter factions led by former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto set to go their separate ways, concerns are rife among some opposition party contingents about their diminishing voice in the national government.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is also co-leader of the opposition Japan Restoration Party, revealed that he has asked the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to retract its resolution condemning his remarks on the so-called "comfort women" in the Japanese military during World War II, saying he has never justified the use of such women under the military regime, local press reported on Friday.
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