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Either he is a hopeless optimist, or.... he is just being Taro Aso. Comedy gold.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday that rice on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido "has become tastier thanks to (global) warming," a remark likely to raise eyebrows of climate campaigners. People often associate a warming climate with negative developments, but there is "something good," said the 81-year-old politician, who until recently had served as finance minister for nearly nine years. He made the remarks while giving a stump speech in Hokkaido's Otaru for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate running in Sunday's general election.
Japanese rice tastier due to global warming, says ex-PM Aso - The Mainichi
SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday that rice on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido
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