Mayor Hashimoto of Osaka City protested to San Francisco City Council

Mayor Hashimoto of Osaka City is assertive unlike ordinary Japanese people. However, many anti-Japan Japanese people took his speeches wrongly intentionally, and bent or twisted his words to invite many criticisms from anti-Japan people and politicians overseas especially in South Korea. 

When I was active on Twitter, I advised him to speak out in English to have many non-Japanese people understand his true intentions. He didn't respond to me at all, perhaps because I talked to him in English. One of his weak points is that he is a little allergic to English.

However, the more he ignores international realities, the worse he is misunderstood by South Koreans in the US, where Koreans have been promoting to set up comfort women statues in many cities, even by quoting misinterpreted words of his speeches on the comfort women issue. 

So Mayor Hashimoto finally stood up. The following letter was sent to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.

http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/keizaisenryaku/cmsfiles/contents/0000232/232705/01.koukaisyokanEnglish.pdf

Mayor Hashimoto, you did a good job. I hope you keep speaking out your opinions in English.