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Rice Price Baby

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Rice prices soar across Japan creating a crisis. Elsewhere the balance between Japan and China/Taiwan is questioned, LDP work with Ishin and not the DPFP, there's more news on Governor Saito and a snow ball fight creates a potential criminal investigation.

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