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Nobutada Kuroiwa, mayor of Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The mayor of the Japanese hot springs resort denied sexual assault allegations by a former town assemblywoman and justified her recall in a recent referendum. Kuroiwa told a news conference Monday that the recall of Shoko Arai had nothing to do with discrimination against women but was to protect from disgrace. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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