San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee signed a document Wednesday formalizing the city's acceptance of a statue that symbolizes Korean and other Asian women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, city officials said, prompting the mayor of its sister-city Osaka to decide on dissolution of their affiliation.The Japanese government had called on Lee not to accept the statue after the U.S. city's council passed the motion last week. Following Lee's approval, Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said he plans to complete procedures to dissolve the sister-city affiliation with San Francisco i…READ FULL ARTICLE
