TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Farm Minister Taku Eto resigned Wednesday after facing a backlash over a remark that struck a nerve with a public suffering from soaring rice prices, dealing a blow to the already unpopular Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of a parliamentary election.
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Japan farm minister resigns over controversial rice comment
'Extremely inappropriate' remark struck a nerve with inflation-hit public
Taku Eto, center, resigned as Japanese farm minister on May 21. (Photo by Rie Ishii)
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