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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://toad.social/users/minorusaba/statuses/114543113817579916">Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:00:14 JST</a><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba" title="minorusaba@toad.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/139443-48-20230930221108.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Minoru Saba" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Minoru Saba</a></section><article><p>"[<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Japan" rel="tag">#Japan</a>'s] Farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after [saying] that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters"<br><a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html</a></p><p>"[Eto] entered a cabinet for the first time in 2019 as [PM Shinzo Abe's] farm minster. The veteran is known [to be] well-versed in agriculture and forestry policies"<br><a href="https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20241104-220534/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20241104-220534/</a></p><p>🔸But seemingly didn't understand rice distribution, consumer concerns...and fresh thinking. <br>Just another ossified politician🙁</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5083238#notice-9967710">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-05-21T10:00:14+09:00" title="Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:00:14 JST">about 18 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/114543113817579916" rel="external" title="Sent from toad.social via ActivityPub">toad.social</a></span></span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/114543113817579916">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: img.kyodonews.net</div><h5><a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html">Japan farm minister resigns over controversial gifted rice comments</a></h5><div> from <span>KYODO NEWS</span></div></header><div>Taku Eto resigned as farm minister on Wednesday after experiencing a backlash over a controversial admission that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters, with the comments hitting a nerve as the Japanese public struggles with soaring prices.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: japannews.yomiuri.co.jp</div><h5><a href="https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20241104-220534/">Taku Eto, Keisuke Suzuki to Join PM Ishiba’s Cabinet, Replace Incumbent Ministers Who Lost in General Election</a></h5><div> from <span>新間</span></div></header><div>Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun arrangements in appointing Taku Eto as the new agriculture minister and Keisuke Suzuki as the new justice minister, replacing incumbents who lost in the recent House of Representatives election, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:00:14 JST Minoru Saba
"[#Japan's] Farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after [saying] that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters"
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html
"[Eto] entered a cabinet for the first time in 2019 as [PM Shinzo Abe's] farm minster. The veteran is known [to be] well-versed in agriculture and forestry policies"
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20241104-220534/
🔸But seemingly didn't understand rice distribution, consumer concerns...and fresh thinking.
Just another ossified politician🙁
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  Japan farm minister resigns over controversial gifted rice comments
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  Taku Eto resigned as farm minister on Wednesday after experiencing a backlash over a controversial admission that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters, with the comments hitting a nerve as the Japanese public struggles with soaring prices.
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  Taku Eto, Keisuke Suzuki to Join PM Ishiba’s Cabinet, Replace Incumbent Ministers Who Lost in General Election
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  Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun arrangements in appointing Taku Eto as the new agriculture minister and Keisuke Suzuki as the new justice minister, replacing incumbents who lost in the recent House of Representatives election, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

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