Scandal-hit Farm minister Akagi resigns

Scandal-hit Farm minister Akagi resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerges from a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 1. Abe later accepted the resignation offered by his farm minister Norihiko Akagi. (Kyodo)

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