By TAKASHI YOSHIKAWA/ Staff Writer
December 27, 2019 at 15:40 JST
Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui and other politicians stand up to vote ‘yes’ on a plan to reorganize the Osaka city government during a committee meeting in Osaka on Dec. 26. (Nobuhiro Shirai)
OSAKA--Local politicians gave the green light to an ambitious but polarizing plan to reorganize the Osaka city government into four special wards under an initiative to form a Tokyo-like metropolitan government. [Read More]
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