"Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were 5." — Pam Brown
It is not often that Toru Hashimoto has a warm, grateful smile for a journalist's inquiry about "comfort women."
"That question was unusually fair," the Osaka mayor conceded in a parting remark at a recent news conference, after I'd asked if he had been misunderstood. "Even for Japanese media, my position is hard to understand," he had admitted earlier.