“I never buy rice”: misguided statement costs Japanese minister during national food crisis

With that one sentence, the Japanese agricultural minister Taku Eto put himself offside. While millions of Japanese are struggling with empty shelves and rising rice prices, he said carelessly during a party meeting that he always gets his rice as a gift. The pronunciation put bad blood in a country where rice is a daily need. It cost him the head within a few days.

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