According to allegations, SF-based property company Valstock Management tried to force out low-income and immigrant families by way of intimidation and harassment.
Osaka, one of the largest cities in Japan, will throw out its sister city designation with SF in protest over a statue that honors human trafficking victims of the Second World War.
On Friday the city dedicated a new public art installation honoring World War II’s "comfort women"—the crude term given to civilians, from countries like China and Korea, taken prisoner and forced to work at brothels serving Japanese soldiers.