THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 2, 2020 at 16:28 JST
Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui, right, and Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura at a news conference in Osaka after the result of a referendum was announced on Nov. 1 (Yuki Shibata)
OSAKA--Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui expressed his intention to resign from politics after his pet project to reorganize Osaka city into a metropolis like Tokyo was narrowly voted down in a second referendum on Nov. 1. [Read More]
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