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Japanese politician
Norihiko Akagi
(
赤城 ?彦
,
Akagi Norihiko
, born April 18, 1959)
is a Japanese
politician
of the
Liberal Democratic Party
, a member of the
House of Representatives
in the
Diet
(national legislature).
A native of
Makabe District, Ibaraki
and graduate of the
University of Tokyo
, he worked at the
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
from 1983 to 1988. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990.
Akagi took office as
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
after the suicide of his predecessor,
Toshikatsu Matsuoka
, in May 2007.
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Not even two months after being inaugurated, Akagi found himself indicted in a political funding
scandal
not entirely different from the one his predecessor had been embroiled in - he was alleged to have registered multi-million yen expenditures on an office which did not exist.
[2]
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[6]
Akagi was asked to make receipts official but refused. On July 17, he appeared at a press conference with two adhesive plasters on his face, puzzling reporters but still refusing to make receipts official.
[7]
Akagi resigned as Minister on August 1, 2007, after the
upper house election
.
Minister of the Environment
,
Masatoshi Wakabayashi
, became concurrent Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and stayed until August 27, 2007, when
Shinz? Abe
announced a new cabinet. Akagi's virtual successor was
Takehiko Endo
appointed on August 27.
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