“Wagyu Olympics” which judges the excellence of branded cattle from all over Japan took place.
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
【Editorial】 Ruling coalition’s landslide victory is by no means carte blanche for agricultural policy (Dec. 16, 2014)
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito together maintained a two-thirds majority in the 47th general election of the House of Representatives held on Sunday, Dec. 14. However, at the same time, the dark side of Abenomics, such as the widening wealth gap and declining regional economies, reared its head through the election campaigns. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must sincerely listen to the voices of farmers and rural communities. Worries and distrust are surging over the government’s headlong liberalistic trade policies and reform of agricultural co-operatives. He should seriously take to heart that this vote of confidence in the Abe administration is by no means a carte blanche. There … Continue reading
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【News】 Government panel head stresses need to take away legal auditing authority of agricultural co-op unions (Dec. 16, 2014)
As the government works to submit a bill to the next yeakar’s ordinary Diet session to revise the Agricultural Co-operative Society Law, Motoyuki Oka, head of the government’s Regulatory Reform Council, said on Monday, Dec. 15 that the panel will strongly urge the government to abolish legal authority of agricultural co-operatives’ central and prefectural unions to audit member co-ops (JAs). At the panel’s meeting held earlier in the day, the panel’s agriculture working group submitted its proposals regarding the review of agricultural co-ops. The proposals include taking away legal authority from central and prefectural unions to audit primary JAs and introducing restrictions on the use of JAs by non-farmer … Continue reading
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【Editor’s column】 Ruling party’s landslide victory does not indicate public confidence in agricultural policies (Dec. 15, 2014)
Director General of Editorial Department, Hidenori Uchida The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won an overwhelming victory in the Lower House election, but the party should not take this as public support for agricultural policies, which are part of the Abenomics economic reform agenda touted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a focus of campaign pledges. Debates on agricultural policies were low-keyed in the election campaigns. The LDP apparently avoided focusing on agricultural co-operatives reform and the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, both of which are included in the government’s “third arrow” of Abenomics. Although they are issues which would influence the future of agriculture and rural villages, voters had no … Continue reading
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【News】 Gourmet lunch for children! (Dec. 14, 2014)
Tetsuya Onda – 9th All Japan School Lunch Championship – Twelve couples of school lunch professionals show superb skills The final match to determine the best school lunch of the year was held at Kagawa Nutrition University in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and the top 12 finalists, either school lunch centers or school dieticians for elementary and junior high schools, did their best to demonstrate their original menus all rich in local ingredients. The 9th All Japan School Lunch Championship was organized by a non-profit organization, Research and Institute for 21st Century, with an aim to support dietary education for Children. The 12 local champion teams came from Aomori Prefecture in the … Continue reading
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【Watch】 Secretive act by Mr. Froman revealed! (Dec. 12, 2014)
Senior Staff Writer, Masaru Yamada – Washington, D.C. Ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, or TPP talks, have been strongly criticized for its secretive style of negotiations. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman Thursday, Dec. 11 showed his skill how to secretly remove an anti-free-trade slogan from his coffee cup. Labor Unions and civic groups organized “an unconventional protest” outside the USTR building in Washington DC early morning passing out free coffee and the coffee cup sleeves saying “Wake up! Stop Fast Track.” Although the original purpose was to deliver coffee to participants of the chief negotiators’ meeting held here in Washington DC until Friday Dec.12, they got a much bigger … Continue reading
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