THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 16, 2023 at 13:20 JST
Nobutada Kuroiwa, mayor of Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2020. (Momoko Ikegami)
MAEBASHI--A former town assembly member has retracted part of her sexual assault allegations against the mayor of Kusatsu, a popular hot spring tourist resort in Gunma Prefecture. [Read More]
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