Japan's Osaka to snap sister city link with San Francisco over 'comfort women' statue

TOKYO (Reuters) - The mayor of Japan's western city of Osaka plans to cut ties with U.S. sister city San Francisco after the latter accepted the donation of a "comfort women" statue from a private group there.

The issue of "comfort women", as those forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels were euphemistically known, has long embittered the ties of neighbours, such as China and South Korea, with Japan.