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【News】 Democratic Party presses Government to reveal details of TPP ministerial talks between Japan and United States (April 4, 2016)
Government officials told members of the Democratic Party (DP) at DP’s meeting held on March 29 that all of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial talks between Japan and the United States had proceeded without recording those talks in any form of minutes. According to the Japanese Government’s TPP Headquarters at the Cabinet Secretariat Office, the two governments could have found it more difficult for them to exchange free-handed views to find out a solution for concluding the trade talks, if negotiators’ remarks were recorded in the minutes and they tried to obtain partner’s pledge in those minutes of previous meetings. The governmental officials also told the DP lawmakers that the … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan Agricultural News’ poll: Approval rating for Abe’s Cabinet stands at 33 percent (April 1, 2016)
The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet was 33 percent, while the disapproval rating further rose to 64 percent, according to the poll conducted in March by the Japan Agricultural News for its subscribers, mostly farmers, registered as agricultural policy monitors throughout the country. These figures have been supposedly reflected by dissatisfaction with Abe’s Administration, prevailing among farmers and their supporters, which agreed on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact with 11 countries and plans to carry out a radical reform in the agricultural policy. The Cabinet’s support rate marked a decline whenever an agricultural policy reform was advocated by the government. When the farm policy reform … Continue reading
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【News】 Anti-TPP groups demonstrate around Diet Building urging “TPP ratification does not have any justice” (March 31, 2016)
More than 700 demonstrators of farmers, consumers, representatives of citizen’s groups, and lawyers came from various parts of Japan to gather around the Diet Building at Nagata-cho, Tokyo on March 30 and held a rally and a demonstration for preventing the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact, before lawmakers begin extensive deliberations at the Diet on approvals of the TPP accord and related bills. Members of 66 groups including nonprofit organizations, trade unions, farmers, and medical institutions joined the rally. The participants in the rally, flying flags and holding message boards, protested against the TPP and formed a line of more than 100 meters in front of … Continue reading
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【News】 Unseasonal shaved ice increases sales of main business at fruit dealers and ramen shops (March 28, 2016)
Some of vegetable and fruit dealers as well as food shops are serving unseasonal “shaved ices” in winter and spring seasons. The menu of shaved ices plays an important role in winning more customers for main businesses of those shops. “Hanayaka Market”, a vegetable and fruit shop located in Kuki-shi, Saitama prefecture, serves its guests with shaved ices throughout the year. Various fruits, being sold at the Market, are squeezed into topping juices for the shaves ices. Those juices are mixed when needed, while whip cream or cheese cream is added to the topping to make the ice more delicious. An ingredient suitable to fruits is selected from a professional … Continue reading
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【News】 Democratic Party launched to clarify Administration’s responsibility for controversial TPP deal (March 28, 2016)
A new opposition party named “Minshinto (The Democratic Party),” created through the merger between Minshuto (The Democratic Party of Japan) and Ishin no To (The Japan Innovation Party), held a party convention in Tokyo on March 27. Katsuya Okada, elected as the first head of the Democratic Party (DP), declared his determination to get power by saying “Our new party will be the last chance to realize a change of administration in Japan.” DP’s leader Katsuya Okada also said his party will be most tough for Diet debates with Abe’s administration on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) regional free trade deal. The TPP is expected to be a predominant focus of … Continue reading
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