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Monthly Archives: December 2014
【Editorial】 Don’t cover people’s eyes and ears with state secrets law (Dec. 10, 2014)
The state secrets law came into effect on Wednesday, Dec. 10. The law will be put into practice amid remaining fears that the people’s right to know and freedom of the press might be threatened. The government set guidelines for enforcing the law a year after the ruling bloc steamrollered the bill through the Diet, but the nature of the issue remains unchanged. The government must not intentionally hide information unfavorable for itself and cover the people’s eyes and ears. The negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, conducted behind closed doors, show us the dangers of confidentiality pacts. We urge the government to make ceaseless efforts to review … Continue reading
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【News】 Mie University team develops biofuel from unconsumed tangerines (Dec. 6, 2014)
Yasuhiko Tateishi A research team of Mie University Graduate School of Bioresources, headed by Professor Hiroshi Tamaru, has developed a technology to turn tangerines into biobutanol, which can be used as a substitute for gasoline. Compared with ethanol, which is a widely-used alternative energy produced from biomass, butanol has higher energy output. It is also less corrosive than ethanol so there should be fewer problems using existing storage and handling infrastructure for gasoline. The fuel is created by putting damaged or rotten tangerines which have become unsuitable for sale into a tank unskinned, along with microorganisms. After cells are broken up to achieve saccharification, different kinds of microbes are … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Look again at food crisis on World Soil Day (Dec. 5, 2014)
2015 is the year declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations. The world is currently facing various issues including sustainable agricultural production, food security, biodiversity protection and poverty alleviation. The International Year of Soils aims to be a platform for raising awareness of the importance of soils in tackling such issues, taking into account that soils are being degraded. Dec. 5 is World Soil Day to kick off the campaign. Let us look again at the key role of soils as the basis of life. In December 2013, in response to a proposal by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations General Assembly declared Dec. … Continue reading
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【News】 African countries called for urgent solution for the sharp decline of international cotton prices (Dec. 5, 2014)
Satoko Adachi－Geneva In the Doha Round (multilateral trade negotiations) of The World Trade Organization (WTO), four cotton-producing countries in West Africa, which have called for solutions for the problem of cotton subsidies, insisted Friday, Nov. 28, on the need for early settlement of the round because the most recent decline of the international cotton prices has severely affected the farmers in those countries. The problem of cotton subsidies is one of the pending issues among the least developed countries. The four countries, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, claimed that subsidies for cotton farmers in the United States and other countries led to overproduction and international price drop of … Continue reading
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