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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Monday, May 27, 2013. The outspoken Japanese politician apologized Monday for saying U.S. troops should patronize adult entertainment businesses as a way to reduce rapes, but defended another controversial remark about Japan's use of sex slaves during World War II. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japanese politico: Sorry about sex comments regarding U.S. troops

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this May 13, 2013, photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto answers reporters' questions at the Osaka city office in Osaka, western Japan. Osaka's outspoken mayor has said the system in which Asian women were forced to become wartime prostitutes before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the Japanese military. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Japanese mayor: Sex slaves were necessary to ‘maintain discipline’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times