A lawmaker from Japan’s ruling political party has apologized for inaccurately stating that U.S. President Barack Obama is a descendant of slaves. “In America, a black man became president. I mean, he’s in a bloodline of black people who were slaves,” Kazuya Maruyama, a lawmaker from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), said Wednesday, during a meeting of the Upper House constitutional panel.”People in the country’s founding era would have never ...
