[Tokyo 7th Reuters]-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at the plenary session of the House of Representatives on the 7th that he had not promised or agreed to buy corn with the United States. Answer to the representative question by Yukio Edano, representative of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
According to the Prime Minister, about the exchange at the meeting with US President Trump, “People will buy alternative feeds ahead of time due to the expansion of pest damage. “We expect purchases, but we have no promises or agreements with the president.”
The plenary session on the same day was delayed by nearly an hour and a half because of opposition from the opposition party in response to the recitation of Senri Oshima, the chairman of the House of Representatives.
(Nobu Takemoto)