FM puzzles followers with ‘bacon’ tweet

Bemused followers of Japan’s foreign minister were left scratching their heads on Tuesday after a bizarre tweet about bacon, sparking tongue-in-cheek speculation he could be tweeting classified information in code. “Ah, bacon is in fact ^%$+*.!% .... ” Taro Kono tweeted in Japanese from his verified account to his 513,000 followers. The tweet prompted confusion and many more retweets and ‘likes’ that he usually gets from conventional tweets about diplomatic meetings. On Sunday, he tweeted his son had greeted him by “screaming bacon with all his might” when he returned home in the early hours. “What does he want to do?” he tweeted, uploading an image of a sheet of paper on which someone had handwritten the word “bacon” in Japanese. There was no further comment on the bacon affair and ministry officials declined to comment.