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US soldiers should use more prostitutes to cut sex crimes, says Japanese mayor - The Irish Times - Wed, May 15, 2013
US soldiers should use more prostitutes to cut sex crimes, says Japanese mayor
One of Japan’s leading politicians has poisoned already toxic relations with China and South Korea by saying that wartime sex slaves were a necessary evil.
Toru Hashimoto, who is mayor of Osaka and co-leader of the right-wing Japan Restoration Party, also said “American soldiers should use more prostitutes. Soldiers are put in extreme situations in which they can lose their lives”, he told the US military commander in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture and home to 75 per cent of American bases in the country. “They are overflowing with energy. We have to think about the way they can let it out somewhere.”
Mr Hashimoto said that when he made the suggestion earlier this month, the commander “appeared frozen, smiled wryly and said it is banned”. A Pentagon spokesperson later called the suggestion “ridiculous”.
The son of a small-time gangster, Mr Hashimoto is tipped as a future prime minister, despite a string of controversial bon mots. In 2011 he said that Japan needed a dictatorship and should revise its “pacifist” constitution. “Not being able to have a war on its own is the most pitiful thing about Japan,” he has said.
US soldiers should use more prostitutes to cut sex crimes, says Japanese mayor - The Irish Times - Wed, May 15, 2013
US soldiers should use more prostitutes to cut sex crimes, says Japanese mayor
One of Japan’s leading politicians has poisoned already toxic relations with China and South Korea by saying that wartime sex slaves were a necessary evil.
Toru Hashimoto, who is mayor of Osaka and co-leader of the right-wing Japan Restoration Party, also said “American soldiers should use more prostitutes. Soldiers are put in extreme situations in which they can lose their lives”, he told the US military commander in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture and home to 75 per cent of American bases in the country. “They are overflowing with energy. We have to think about the way they can let it out somewhere.”
Mr Hashimoto said that when he made the suggestion earlier this month, the commander “appeared frozen, smiled wryly and said it is banned”. A Pentagon spokesperson later called the suggestion “ridiculous”.
The son of a small-time gangster, Mr Hashimoto is tipped as a future prime minister, despite a string of controversial bon mots. In 2011 he said that Japan needed a dictatorship and should revise its “pacifist” constitution. “Not being able to have a war on its own is the most pitiful thing about Japan,” he has said.