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They're funny, finicky and feisty, not to mention being full of wicked mischief, with their own way of talking, too. Outside of Japan, think of Liverpool, not London; or Munich, not Berlin;...
It has never been a secret that Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s father was ayakuza, or that his gangster father hailed from a social underclass that has often been discriminated...
The colorless politicians in the Nagata-cho, Japan’s Capitol Hill, can only look on the recent landslide election of Toru Hashimoto as mayor of Osaka with a mixture of envy and dread...