Eto bears heavy responsibility for undermining public trust in agricultural policies, and his departure, marking the first ...

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Unable to withstand the rapidly mounting pressure from opposition parties, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba made a U-turn and ...

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dismissed his agriculture minister Wednesday after an off-the-cuff remark about gifted rice ...

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Former Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi was appointed the new agriculture minister on Wednesday following the ...

Taku Eto may forever be known as Japan’s modern-day Marie Antoinette.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has asked the new agriculture minister, Koizumi Shinjiro, to make efforts to stabilize rice prices.