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【News】 Japan mulling making concessions regarding market access for key sensitive farm products (Aug. 3, 2015)
Ministers of the member nations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative have failed to reach broad agreement during the latest meeting held in Hawaii, but bilateral negotiations have entered their final stage, except for the most controversial areas such as rice and dairy products. Japan is said to have accepted further market liberalization even for the five key farm products listed in the Diet resolution as subject to exemption from tariff elimination, and the move is highly likely to draw criticism as being contradictory to the resolution. In order to push the talks forward, Akira Amari, minister in charge of the TPP talks, held bilateral talks with his counterparts such … Continue reading
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【News】 Gods, men and women in rice paddies (Aug. 2, 2015)
Kentarou Tominaga – Onda Matsuri (Aso-shi, Kumamoto Prefecture) – Every year on July 28 in Aso-shi, Kumamoto Prefecture, a festival called Onda Matsuri is held to express hopes of local farmers for abundant harvests. A long procession of nearly two hundred locals including woman dressed all in white and carrying the meals for the gods (unari), portable shrines (mikoshi) and female rice planters (saotome) on horses walk around the farming village. The parade started at 11:30 a.m. at the sound of the drum. Fourteen unari, four mikoshi, ten horses and other attendants left Aso Shrine to make a round trip of approximately three kilometers through the village. According to the … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Never allow the government to cross the red line in TPP: dairy farmers (Aug. 1, 2015)
On Friday, July 31, as the negotiations under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks entered a final stage, dairy farmers nationwide held a rally to urge the government to protect the domestic farm sector amid media reports that Japan is considering expanding the import quota for dairy products. We cannot possibly allow the government to rush to reach broad agreement on the talks along with the United States. If the situation proceeds as is, the government is highly likely to go against the Diet resolution calling for the protection of sensitive farm items. The government must respond to farmers’ voices. It should never make further concessions. The major concern in … Continue reading
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【News】 Farmers’ delegations from Japan and Canada agree to respect each other’s sensitive products (July 31, 2015)
Hayato Niki – Lahaina, Hawaii Officials of the Japan Agricultural Co-operatives group met Canadian representatives of the farm sector in Hawaii on Wednesday, July 29 (July 30 Japan time), and agreed to push their governments to protect sensitive farm products in the ongoing ministerial sessions under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks. As frustration rises over Canada which has been stonewalling demands from others to open its markets, officials of the Canadian dairy, poultry and egg industries which are protected under the government’s supply management system claimed it is important for the Canadian government to keep its protective policies in the run-up to the general elections in October. Toshiaki Tobita, vice … Continue reading
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【News】 Kansai researcher discovers smells that scare mice (July 31, 2015)
A researcher of Kansai Medical University in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, has discovered smells that terrify mice by acting on their brain circuit to cause an inherent sense of fear. Mice do not get accustomed to the smells even if they are repeatedly exposed to them. If the findings can be applied to other animals such as deer and wild boars, it could be used as breakthrough odor repellents for protecting crops from wildlife damage. Ko Kobayakawa found out that animals’ ability to detect predators through smells is not learned but genetically hardwired into their brain. He identified some 30 types of smell created from synthetic substances that strongly activate … Continue reading
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