Road budgets for two municipalities that opposed farm minister cut by up to 54%, MLIT survey finds
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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced on the 6th that this fiscal year's road-related budgets for two municipalities in Tochigi Prefecture had been cut by up to 54% compared with the previous fiscal year. The heads of the two municipalities had supported a rival candidate against Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kazuo Yanagi in February's House of Representatives election. The cuts affected part of the budgets for these two municipalities, and the ministry disclosed them as the findings of its survey. Minister Yanagi said he has "no memory" of when he checked with the ministry.