“Wagyu Olympics” which judges the excellence of branded cattle from all over Japan took place.
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【News】 Japan and Australia unlikely to achieve EPA before fall (June 25, 2013)
Japan and Australia are unlikely to conclude the ongoing negotiations for an economic partnership agreement before September, sources said Monday, June 24. The two governments have been negotiating to strike a basic deal as early as this month, the remaining issue being whether Japan will agree to imposing lower tariffs for a certain amount of imports of sensitive agricultural products such as beef from Australia in exchange for phased reduction of Australia’s tariffs on Japanese car imports. The governments, however, have decided to put off the discussion until fall, as the Upper House election in Japan is scheduled in July and Australia’s federal election is planned in September, and … Continue reading
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【News】 TPP participants have effectively reached agreements on nearly half of the fields on the negotiating table, leaving Japan with a narrow window in its debut round (June 25, 2013)
Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which will host the forthcoming round of negotiations under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks scheduled in July, announced Thursday, June 20, that in 14 out of 29 chapters of the agreement, “negotiations on technical and less contentious issues are considered substantially closed.” The 14 chapters do not include key areas such as market access and tariffs, but the announcement indicates that Japan, which is expected to join the talks in the later part of the round of negotiations in Malaysia, is getting less chance to have its say as the final stages draw near. In the TPP initiative, 21 working groups are … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Listen to the voices from wildlife in rice fields (June 23, 2013)
I am a frog living in rice paddies. I enjoy looking at young rice seedlings grow bigger every day. At one time, all of us amphibians got into a terrible panic because of a fatal infectious disease called chytridiomycosis, but we somehow managed to survive. Now it is becoming clear that the disease is not as horrifying to Japanese frogs as some thought. Whew! Thank goodness. Still, my fellows are feeling restless. All of us creatures living in rice paddies, including rice fish, pond snails and diving beetles, are worried because we see less and less human beings in the paddies. You may think that we can feel more at … Continue reading
【News】 Fukushima’s cattle breeding cooperatives federation decides to break up on the backdrop of decreasing number of member farms and cattle (June 22, 2013)
The federation of cattle breeders’ cooperative associations in Fukushima decided on disbanding the organization in a general meeting held in Fukushima on Friday, June 21, as its member cooperative associations dissolved one after another after the accident of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in 2011. “Why do we have to be the ones to break up our organization which has a long history?” said Ichio Watanabe, president of Ishikawa district’s cattle breeding cooperative association who heads the federation. “If only there hadn’t been the nuclear power plant,” Watanabe said, expressing deep regret and anger. The federation was established in July 1965 as a federation of cooperative associations for … Continue reading
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【News】 New food labeling law is passed to consolidate Japan’s food labeling regulations (June 22, 2013)
The Upper House passed a new food labeling bill on Friday, June 21, to unify overlapping regulations on the safety and quality of food products in Japan and make food labeling easier to understand. Although the new law will not substantially change the scope of food labeling requirements, it will provide stricter administrative orders and sanctions for violating the law. The new labeling rules are expected to be introduced in April 2015 at the earliest. Currently, food labeling requirements are determined by three laws – the Food Sanitation Act, the JAS (Japanese Agricultural Standard) Law and the Health Promotion Act – but the laws have caused confusion for consumers, … Continue reading
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