We came across the following tweet by Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura dated April 28th (translated from Japanese ).
He tweeted ” The Removal of Comfort Women Memorial Statue. The Comfort Women Memorial Statue which was set up in Manila last year was removed with the backhoe. I want the Comfort Women Memorial Statue in San Francisco to be removed with a backhoe, too. Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has been given huge amounts of money from the tax payers in Japan, I want the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to put their efforts to remove the Comfort Women Memorial Statue which has been set up in one city (San Francisco) of the United States with which Japan has an alliance. ”
Hirofumi has already terminated the sister city relationship with San Francisco after the memorial was erected.
