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Monthly Archives: May 2014
【News】 US reluctant to introduce safeguard measures for Japanese farm products (May 21, 2014)
Hirobumi Senbongi – Singapore The United States negotiators have opposed to introducing safeguard measures for Japan’s key agricultural products in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, it was learned Tuesday, May 20.As Japan and the U.S. resumed bilateral negotiations in Singapore along with the two-day ministerial meeting of the TPP member nations, the U.S. kept its hard-line stance over the measures which were seen as a key to reaching broad agreement, according to Japanese government sources. The two nations, the biggest economies in the TPP, are said to have agreed on a “formula” with which they can seal a bilateral deal on the remaining issues, when they held marathon talks … Continue reading
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【News】 State panel proposes relaxing regulations for farmland ownership (May 20, 2014)
The government’s Council for Regulatory Reform has called for drastic deregulation in establishing agricultural production corporations which can own farmlands. The proposal goes against the recent trend where farmland transactions are largely shifting from selling to lending under the revised Agricultural Land Law and the farmland consolidation banks established this fiscal year. The idea apparently reflects strong request from the business community to allow farmland acquisition by private companies. The Agricultural Land Law was revised in 2009 to allow companies other than agricultural production corporations to rent farmlands. After the revision of the law, more companies began to engage in agribusiness, with the number amounting to 1,261 cases as … Continue reading
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【News】 Flowery Tradition Being Passed Down by Children (May 18, 2014)
Kotaro Yamada – Tsukagoshi Flower Festival (Chichibu-shi, Saitama Prefecture） In the Tsukagoshi district of Kamiyoshida, Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, there is a traditional spring festival called Hana Matsuri (flower festival). It’s literally a flowery festivity to gather flowers from around the village and scatter them in the local shrine. That way, people celebrate the birth of Buddha but the festival itself is all carried out by local children. The tradition has actually been handed down from the Edo period by children in the village. Hana Matsuri is held in early May every year. This year, it was prepared and performed by 14 local children. They decorated a Hanamido portable shrine with … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Breakup of the JA group must be avoided at any cost (May 15, 2014)
The Council for Regulatory Reform has released its proposal on agricultural reform which calls for revisions of agricultural committees, agricultural cooperatives and agricultural production corporations. It is a monstrously unjust proposal which paves the way for private companies’ unrestricted entries into the agricultural sector and practically forces the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) group to split up. We cannot possibly accept the proposal which is uncomprehending and ignorant of the fact that the JA group is a private cooperative organization. The JA group is now in the heat of reforming itself. We must work together to fight back against moves to dissolve the group. The proposal is an apparent effort … Continue reading
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【News】 LDP to come up with agricultural reform plan in June (May 15, 2014)
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will compile its own agricultural reform plan which is likely to be less drastic than the government panel’s proposal and conforms to farmers’ objectives, party officials said. The LDP’s two project teams, which have been discussing since March on how to reform agricultural organizations, plan to release their proposals in early June, they said. Many LDP lawmakers representing the agricultural sector pointed out that the government panel’s proposal lacks the viewpoints of farmers and rural communities, saying that they cannot see how the proposal actually leads to an increase in farmers’ incomes. They said the panel’s proposal, which includes abolishment of the umbrella bodies … Continue reading
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