Ex-farm minister Tamazawa to leave LDP over accounting scandal

Ex-farm minister Tamazawa to leave LDP over accounting scandal

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of former agriculture minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa, which told the Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 3 that he intends to leave the party to take responsibility for an alleged accounting irregularity involving an LDP chapter he has led.

Ex-farm minister Tamazawa to leave LDP over accounting scandal

Ex-farm minister Tamazawa to leave LDP over accounting scandal

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of former agriculture minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa, which told the Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 3 that he intends to leave the party to take responsibility for an alleged accounting irregularity involving an LDP chapter he has led. (Kyodo)

Tamazawa Inari Shrine

Tamazawa Inari Shrine

Family snapshot taken at the foot of the stairs of Tamasawa Inari Shrine in Asahi Village, Ibaraki Prefecture. This shrine is said to have been established near a natural spring on the way to Mutsu where Minamoto Yoriyoshi and Yoshiie, father and son, prayed for victory over the Abe clan. They ordered Kamakura Gondayuu to build the shrine in 1063. The deity enshrined here is Ukanomitama-no mikoto.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐64‐0]

Japan eyes higher food self-sufficiency

Japan eyes higher food self-sufficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa addresses a meeting of government advisers March 9. He presented a plan to boost Japan's self-sufficiency in food to 45% in fiscal 2010 from an estimated 40% in fiscal 1998.

Japan, China sign fishery pact

Japan, China sign fishery pact

BEIJING, China - Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa (L) and Chinese Agriculture Minister Chen Yaobang (R) shake hands at a Beijing hotel Feb. 27 after signing an agreement to make a bilateral fisheries pact effective from June. The agreement ends differences between the two countries over zoning that had lingered since a fishery accord was signed in November 1997.

Japan, China start ministerial talks on fisheries

Japan, China start ministerial talks on fisheries

BEIJING, China - Japan and China begin a two-day ministerial meeting in Beijing on Feb. 26 in an attempt to make a breakthrough in a dispute with China over the implementation of a 1997 bilateral fisheries treaty. Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa (L) shakes hands with Chinese Agriculture Minister Chen Yaobang (R) prior to their talks.