Japanese mayor apologizes for saying US troops should visit adult businesses to reduce rapes

TOKYO –  A Japanese mayor apologized Monday for saying earlier that U.S. troops should patronize legal adult entertainment businesses as a way to reduce rapes and other assaults.Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is also the co-head of an emerging nationalistic party, said his remarks two weeks ago rose from a "sense of crisis" about cases of sexual assaults by U.S. military personnel on Japanese civilians in Okinawa, where a large number of U.S. troops are... more Japanese mayor apologizes for saying US troops should visit adult businesses to reduce rapes | Fox News