The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan farm chief slammed over "plenty of rice" remark amid shortagesTOKYO - Japan's farm minister Taku Eto on Monday came under fire after saying that he does not need to buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters, at a time when soaring rice prices have squeezed households.Eto's comments, made Sunday at a fundraising party, came as his ministry moved to release rice from emergency stockpiles to help curb prices that have roughly doubled from a year earlier due to a poor harvest. Prices for t…READ FULL ARTICLE