Former head of Japanese egg producer convicted for bribing ex-farm minister

A former representative of a major Japanese egg producer was sentenced Wednesday to 20 months in prison, suspended for four years, for bribing a former farm minister to seek favors for egg farmers.The Tokyo District Court found Yoshiki Akita, the former head of Akita Foods Co. in the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima, guilty of providing a total of 5 million yen ($44,700) to Takamori Yoshikawa, then agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister.The court acknowledged that Akita, 87, handed the cash to Yoshikawa between November 2018 and August 2019 at a Tokyo hotel and the minister's …READ FULL ARTICLE