Have also posted this in Chat, (Reason I'm glad I left Japan), apologies for the duplication!
Top of the list today (and replacing the usual front runner of "cockroaches") is Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto.
"On Monday, Mr Hashimoto appeared before foreign journalists in Tokyo to explain comments he made about Japan's wartime use of "comfort women", the tens of thousands of women who worked in brutal conditions in Japanese military brothels, often after having been tricked or coerced into service.
Mr Hashimoto caused outrage this month when he appeared to defend the exploitation as a necessary and even justifiable outlet for soldiers in wartime."
"Japanese press transcripts of his original remarks..quote him as saying that, given the stress and danger experienced by soldiers in battle, "anyone can understand that the comfort women system was necessary".
Mr Hashimoto further undermined his credibility by saying that US soldiers on Okinawa should use the island's "adult entertainment industry" in order to reduce incidences of sexual assault on local women.
(clickly link for this article doesn't work, but it can be found in the Financial Times - (ft.com) Asia-Pacific section, article dated 27th May. BBC has a less aggressive take on it here;
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22519384
Unbelievable
Unfortunately that's just the tip of a huge misogynistic iceberg..
Here's a wiki link with background about comfort women
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
It's so fucked up on so many levels.
There's the lack of apology, him trying to explain it as "Oh well, the poor men were stressed, what else could you expect them to do but rape!" Absolutely sickening.
Then his comment about the rapes by American service men in Japan - that rather than going out and raping the locals, they should have better access to prostitutes - I mean, WTAF? No, rather than rape they should, well, not rape. If they do, don't give them access to prostitutes, lock the fuckers up! (the servicemen, obviously, not the prostitutes.) Men do not have to be controlled by their penises, does he seriously think, "Oh well, I don't have a girlfriend, can't seem to find a prostitute, oh sod it I'll go and rape someone."
Thankfully his party's popularity has plummented so well done Japan for that.
The man in question is a lawyer who became a bit of a tv "star" then decided to become a politician. He always came across as a sleazy fucker on tv, so not surprised to see him roll out tripe like this. He has 4 daughters fgs. I wonder what his feelings would be in they were ever "coerced" into prostitution - "Ah well, can't be helped, men do have needs after all."
I cannot stand this prick. 