Tōru Hashimoto

Tōru Hashimoto
Tōru Hashimoto
橋下徹
Mayor of Osaka
	In office; 25 November 2011 – 18 December 2015
Preceded by	Kunio Hiramatsu
Succeeded by	Hirofumi Yoshimura
Governor of Osaka Prefecture
	In office; 6 February 2008 – 31 October 2011
Preceded by	Fusae Ohta
Succeeded by	Ichirō Matsui
Personal details
Born	29 June 1969; Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Nippon Ishin no Kai (national); Osaka Restoration Association (local);
Other political; affiliations	Japan Restoration Party (2012–2014); Japan Innovation Party (2014–2015);
Spouse	Noriko
Children	7; 3 sons and 4 daughters
Alma mater	Waseda University

Tōru Hashimoto (橋下徹, Hashimoto Tōru, born 29 June 1969) is a Japanese TV personality, politician and lawyer. He is a former governor of Osaka Prefecture and mayor of City of Osaka. He is a founder of Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Osaka Restoration Association. He is one of Japan's leading right-wing conservative-populist politicians.

Hashimoto does not believe that Korean comfort women who served as sex workers for the Japanese military during World War II were recruited by force.

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