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【Opinion】The Regulatory Reform Promotion Council proposal – cause of big trouble concerning future food supply (Nov. 18, 2016)
[By Takaaki Mitsuhashi, Economic Critic] The proposals by the government’s Regulatory Reform Promotion Council released earlier this month are apparently aimed at dismantling the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (ZEN-NOH) and breaking its businesses into pieces. It is highly likely that companies such as globally dominant foreign grain traders will come to purchase ZEN-NOH’s divisions related to supplying farm production materials. Japan’s agriculture could come under the control of foreign companies and the nation’s food security could be threatened. The proposed deregulation could ruin our country. I believe China also has its eye on ZEN-NOH. The advisory panel’s proposals are irrational as they are attacking the ZEN-NOH for earning … Continue reading
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【News】Lower house approves TPP despite Trump victory, 300 anti-TPP protesters rally in front of diet demanding Japanese lawmakers to stop making haste decision and ignoring farmers’ agony (Nov. 11, 2016)
On Nov. 10, 2016, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, passed a proposal to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement and approved related legislation. Farmers and other anti-TPP ratification protesters expressed their frustration and anger against the bill that cleared at the Lower House plenary session when the outlook for the pact is uncertain due to Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. Protestors are questioning why only Japan has to rush into the decision, ignoring the opinions of farmers. Lower House approves TPP despite Trump victory People gathered in protest against lawmakers’ decision on TPP ratification (In Nagatacho, Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2016) … Continue reading
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【News】 Ruling Liberal Democratic Party drafting its own proposal on agricultural cooperative reforms with numerical targets set up by farmers’ organizations themselves (Nov. 22, 2016)
Koya Nishikawa, chairman of the Strategy Research Committee for Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), revealed LDP’s own draft of agricultural cooperative reforms on November 21, while the Government and the ruling parties are still continuing to adjust the reform program. An agricultural working group of Government’s advisory panel named as the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform announced its proposal on agricultural reform on November 7, in which the working group recommended the administration to reduce a number of agricultural cooperatives (JAs) operating financial businesses by half in three years by transferring the businesses of small-sized JAs to Norinchukin Bank or JAs’ national financial … Continue reading
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【News】 Representatives of agricultural cooperatives reject Governmental advisory panel’s proposal and confirm importance of self-reforms at urgent meeting (Nov. 22, 2016)
JA ZENCHU (Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives), an apex organization of agricultural cooperatives in Japan, convened an urgent meeting with key lawmakers of ruling parties at Minato ward in Tokyo on November 21. More than 1500 participants, including presidents of agricultural cooperatives (JAs) and representatives of JAs’ prefectural unions and business federations throughout the country, joined the meeting to confirm the importance of reform to be pursued jointly by the Government, ruling parties and JA group. The participants harshly criticized that a proposal on agricultural reform, made by an agricultural working group of the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform, includes some contents that deny cooperatives, organizations of autonomy and … Continue reading
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【News】 Brussels-based International Co-operative Alliance expresses deep concerns over agricultural cooperative reform proposal made by Japanese Government’s advisory panel (Nov. 21, 2016)
The International Co-operative Alliance or ICA, an apex organization for co-operatives worldwide, representing 284 co-operative organizations across 95 countries, headquartered at Brussels, Belgium, expressed its concerns over the latest proposal on agricultural reform made by an agricultural working group of Japanese Government’s advisory panel named as the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform. ICA’s concerns were raised in its letter sent on November 19 to Choe Okuno, president of JA ZENCHU (Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives), an apex body of agricultural cooperative organizations in Japan, who concurrently holds the post of chairman of Japan Joint Committee of Cooperatives (JJC). In the letter addressed to the JA ZENCHU president, ICA’s representative … Continue reading
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