A speech by Shizuoka Governor Heita Kawakatsu to new employees on Monday, April 1, was broadcast in full, stirring controversy with remarks that could be construed as attributing a hierarchy to professions.
The governor of Shizuoka has sparked a row after he said civil servants being inducted into the prefectural government are intelligent people, "unlike those who sell vegetables."
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