Farmers Represented In New Cabinet By Insurgent Seiyukai-Party Diet Member As the new Agriculture and Forestry Minister, Mr. Toshio Shirmda, 63, represents the insurgent group within the Saiyukai Party which recently attempted to carry out a vigorous regorm removement in the Party program. A member of the Lower House of the Diet who has also served as Cabinet Counsellor, he brings to his new post the reformist principles and policies of his Party pertaining to the problems of Japanese farmers. January 1, 1940. (Photo by Japan Photo Library).