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Japan’s farm minister resigns over rice gaffe, as stubbornly high prices threaten government’s grip on power
- ricenews / 11 months
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By Chris Lau, Mai Takiguchi and Soyon Nishioka, CNN Tokyo CNN — An off-the-cuff remark about never paying for rice has cost Japan’s agriculture minister his job, as pressure mounts on the government to solve the nation’s rice crisis. Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday, telling reporters that he had concluded he was “not the right […]
