Toru Hashimoto denies his remarks

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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, May 27, 2013. Toru Hashimoto on Monday denied his remarks on wartime so-called 'comfort women' at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, saying it was not his intention at all to say women who were used as sexual slaves during wartime are necessary.

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, May 27, 2013. Toru Hashimoto on Monday denied his remarks on wartime so-called "comfort women" at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, saying it was not his intention at all to say women who were used as sexual slaves during wartime are necessary.