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【News】 Japanese farmers forced to face further liberalization in TPP framework (Feb. 5, 2016)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement was signed by twelve countries including Japan at a ceremony held in Auckland, New Zealand, on Feb. 4. All the provisions in the text of the TPP pact have been finalized. TPP member countries are now required to take necessary steps to promote domestic procedures. The Government of Japan plans to submit to the current Diet session a bid for ratification of the TPP agreement and TPP-related bills in order to prepare for an early implementation of the agreement. Japan has made a commitment to the United States of America and other partners to drastically reduce import tariffs on key products including beef … Continue reading
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【News】 Exports of farm, forestry and fishery products hit record high (Feb. 3, 2016)
Japan’s exports of foods and agricultural, forestry and fishery products marked a record high for the third straight year in 2015 to reach 745.2 billion yen, an increase of 21 percent from the previous year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (MAFF) said on Feb.2. Japanese cuisine boom overseas and a comparatively weak yen are major factors favorable to the continuous increases in the exports. Exports of agricultural products totaled 443.2 billion yen in the recording period. Above all, apple exports gained the largest percentage increase of 55 percent over the previous year to 13.4 billion yen. Beef saw exports jump 34 percent to 11 billion yen, and green … Continue reading
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【News】 ZEN-NOH Group & US producers to band together for stable supplies of non-GMO corns (Feb. 2, 2016)
The ZEN-NOH Group, headed by the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (ZEN-NOH) in Japan, is strengthening its ties with grain producers in the United States of America to continuously import their product of non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) corn as a major feed ingredient. One of ZEN-NOH’s overseas subsidiaries, CGB Enterprises, Inc. headquartered outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, carries on marketing and transportation businesses for US producers of grains and soybeans. CGB has built up its business activities at grass-root level with non-GMO corn producers in the Midwestern United States, where its 50 staff members maintain face-to-face interacts with those producers in their respective assigned territory through providing them with … Continue reading
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Find colors of earth! Hakone Open-Air Museum holding exhibition of mud paintings by Yusuke Asai (Jan.31,2016)
Mud paintings by a 34-year-old Japanese artist, Yusuke Asai, is now on display at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Hakone-cho, Kanagawa Prefecture. The exhibition “Yusuke Asai: Seeds of Imagination, Journeys of Soil” covers more than 10 pieces of what he calls “earth paintings,” which Asai made from soil he sourced both locally and globally. One of the artworks he created for this exhibition is a mural called “Twin Mice.” It measures 16 meters wide and sprawls on the wall to create an immersive experience for every viewers. He drew a number of mice lively in different poses and vividly in different colors, using white, brown and black soil in various … Continue reading
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【News】 Labelling of origin of ingredient to be expanded (Jan. 30, 2016)
Consumer Affairs Agency and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries jointly set up a panel to consider how to expand a list of processed food items to be covered by the mandatory labelling system of origin of ingredient. At the first meeting of the panel held on Jan. 29, people of organizations, representing food producers, distributers and consumers, exchanged views and agreed to put together a proposal by this autumn for increasing items to be covered by the labelling system. The mandatory labelling rules of the Government are now applied to all fresh foods and some processed ones. The processed foods are made up of 22 groups of food items, … Continue reading
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