Norikazu Suzuki, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, implied a pessimistic economic outlook about the expected recent decline in rice prices in Japan. However, he recognizes the decline in rice prices itself as wishful thinking with concrete methods. As he indicated, he also recognized that politics should not intervene in rice prices as appointed out. It is possible to comprehend the Minister who thinks of price competitiveness in the rice market as well as diminished, and it is accurate to identify his policy to control price competitiveness as conceptualized. The adjustment of demand and supply, or export promotion, as the surrounding environment, must be recognized as the intervention nominalized by "non-intervention," systematically. This is a kind of paradox.
（鈴木憲和農林水産大臣は、日本国内の米価の直近の下落の展望について悲観的な見方を示したが、米価の下落自体については具体的対策を伴った上での希望的観測を持っているとの事である。只、政治が例えばコメの価格を指定し固定する様な真似は芳しくないとの認識を示した。同氏は、コメの価格競争力が損なわれる事に懸念を抱いているものと考えられるが、その価格競争力の概念自体をポリシーとしてコントロールしようと試みているのでは？これは、需給調整や輸出促進といった周辺環境を制度的に整える非介入という名の介入であり、一種の逆説である。）
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