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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://toad.social/users/minorusaba/statuses/114543237512829984">Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:31:41 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><div><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/114543113817579916" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>"Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to appoint former environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi to replace Eto as agriculture minister, according to a government source"<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>🔸Not sure that recycling former ministers will be any better than performatively recycling waste plastic (which largely ends up "thermally recycled". Oh, hang on...burning potential rival PM candidates?🤔)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5083238#notice-9967936">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-05-21T10:31:41+09:00" title="Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:31:41 JST">about 10 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/114543237512829984" rel="external" title="Sent from toad.social via ActivityPub">toad.social</a></span></span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/114543237512829984">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></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:31:41 JST Minoru Saba
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"Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to appoint former environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi to replace Eto as agriculture minister, according to a government source"
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html
🔸Not sure that recycling former ministers will be any better than performatively recycling waste plastic (which largely ends up "thermally recycled". Oh, hang on...burning potential rival PM candidates?🤔)
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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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