Kan eats radish sprouts

Kan eats radish sprouts

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, then health minister, eats radish sprouts before reporters to demonstrate the safety of the products at the ministry in Tokyo in August 1996. Kan, who was named prime minister on June 4, 2010, made the demonstration after the ministry blamed radish sprouts as a possible cause of food poisoning.

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