Japanese assemblyman quits over harassment of Aussie mayor's daughter

The vice speaker of a city assembly in central Japan handed in his resignation to the assembly office on Friday after allegedly sexually harassing the daughter of an Australian mayor at a party last month, the office said.Norio Nagata of the Minokamo city assembly in Gifu Prefecture decided to quit the post after the city's mayor Hiroto Fujii sent an apology email to its sister-city Dubbo in New South Wales late last month.Mathew Dickerson, the mayor of Dubbo, visited the Japanese city with his family and city officials in April and attended a welcome reception on April 3.At an afterparty, …READ FULL ARTICLE