The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------59.8% expect rice prices to fall with new farm minister: Kyodo pollTOKYO - Nearly 60 percent of Japanese believe that the country's soaring rice prices will fall under the new farm minister, following his predecessor's sacking over a controversial remark about receiving gifted rice, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.In the two-day telephone poll conducted from Saturday, 59.8 percent expressed such expectations, while 35.1 percent said they do not believe there would be any such changes with Shinjiro Koizumi …READ FULL ARTICLE
