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Shame on Osaka mayor

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Park Oak-seon, right, a former wartime sex slave, stages a rally with activists at a welfare center in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday, condemning Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto who said that wartime sex slaves, also known as “comfort women,” were “necessary” to give rest to Japanese soldiers during World War II. Nine former Korean wartime sex slaves, including Park, said that it was a challenge to the world for Japanese government to justify comfort women and its war crimes. Yonhap