Farm minister Norihiko Akagi resigns — yawn …
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on August 1st, 2007
Akagi has resigned. I can’t get too excited about this. He was obviously on his way out in the reshuffle, so his exit now can’t mean much …
- Farm minister Akagi resigns to take blame for election damage
Farm minister Norihiko Akagi tendered his resignation Wednesday to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to take responsibility for damage his political fund scandal caused to the governing coalition in the upper house election and his resignation was accepted, Akagi said.”Media reports concerning myself and other factors had an impact on the election and it was all too clear that it was a factor that invited the loss of the ruling coalition,” Akagi told reporters at the prime minister’s office.