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Monthly Archives: July 2013
【Editorial】 The mighty ruling party should listen to the voices from rural areas (July 23, 2013)
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won a sweeping victory in the Upper House election on Sunday, July 21. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should take to heart that this does not indicate voters’ acceptance of his administration’s inclination toward neoliberalism. Rather, for rural communities, the future looks increasingly uncertain and gaps between rural and urban areas are growing. Abe cannot just sit back and enjoy the victory. In implementing agricultural policies in particular, he should listen humbly to the concerns of farmers and rural communities. Although the election put an end to the divided Diet in terms of the number of seats, the division between politics and public opinion … Continue reading
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【News】 Can’t stay silent – weekly magazines feature articles on TPP (July 20, 2013)
After the Japanese government announced its intention to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, one magazine after another is publishing feature articles on the issue. Not only political and economic magazines but even gossip magazines have put together well-described stories on such topics as food safety and privatization of health care. The articles are receiving positive reactions from readers, indicating that magazines can play an effective role in stimulating public concern over the TPP talks. “Your breakfast will be filled with genetically modified foods and foods grown using pesticides.” “Even full-time employees will be fired suddenly like in the United States.” “You won’t be able to take your child … Continue reading
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【News】 Conception rates in cattle decrease in summer due to hormonal imbalance, a research finds (July 19, 2013)
One of the reasons why fertility of cows decline during the summer is because the summer heat stress negatively affects the secretion of prostaglandins in the oviducts, causing hormone imbalances, according to a research group of the Okayama University Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science. Professor Kiyoshi Okuda who heads the research group said the findings will be helpful in analyzing the causes of oviduct malfunction and searching ways to improve the conception rates. Peristaltic movements of oviducts, which are the forces leading to transportation of early embryos to the uterus, are affected by secretion of two types of hormone-like substance prostaglandin – prostaglandin E2(PGE2) and prostaglandin F2α(PGF2α). … Continue reading
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【News】 Kuzumaki in Iwate Prefecture manages to squeeze the rate of unused farmland to 1% (July 19, 2013)
Kuzumaki, a dairy farming region in the heart of Iwate Prefecture which has been tackling for more than a decade to facilitate the use of uncultivated farmland, was officially commended for managing to reduce the rate of such land to 1% of total farmlands in fiscal 2011. A region with an average altitude of 390 meters, Kuzumaki has 3,830 hectares of farmland, out of which 84% is used as fields to grow feed grains. Concerned with the situation where the aging of farmers and lack of successors led to increasing amount of farmlands standing idle, the agriculture committee of the local government began taking measures to reduce the area … Continue reading
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【News】 Cutting tariffs on agricultural products will squeeze domestic production of agricultural and related industries by 11.7 trillion yen, professors say (July 18, 2013)
A group of anti-TPP professors announced on Wednesday, July 17, that if the government abolishes tariffs on agricultural products as discussed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, domestic production in the agricultural and related sectors is estimated to drop by 11.7 trillion yen. According to Eiji Doi, professor emeritus at Shizuoka University who conducted the calculations, the group’s estimates are based on the government estimate that farming output is likely to drop by 3 trillion yen, but they also include impacts on related industries such as transportation and food processing which are predicted to suffer nearly three times as much damage as the agricultural sector. As a result, the … Continue reading
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