米国の最有力紙「ワシントン・ポスト」も橋下徹市長の「慰安婦は必要」発言を報道

☆Osaka mayor says wartime sex slaves were needed to ‘maintain discipline’ in Japanese military
（米紙ワシントン・ポスト）

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/osaka-mayor-says-wartime-sex-slaves-were-needed-to-maintain-discipline-in-japanese-military/2013/05/13/4151bac4-bc43-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

Toru Hashimoto, the young, brash mayor of Osaka who is also co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, also told reporters that there wasn’t clear evidence that the Japanese military coerced women to become what are euphemistically called “comfort women.”