Ex-Japan minister may have taken cash in alleged egg farming bribery

Former farm minister Takamori Yoshikawa is suspected of taking cash from a former representative of a major egg production company in western Japan in return for favors for the egg farming industry, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.Besides Yoshikawa, the 87-year-old former representative of Akita Foods Co. in Hiroshima Prefecture, whose name has not yet been revealed, may have handed cash to other lawmakers with vested interests in the agriculture industry, the sources said.Tokyo prosecutors appear to be investigating the alleged bribing of Yoshikawa, 70, a House of Representatives …READ FULL ARTICLE