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In 2012, the Japanese government launched a new program, under which those who generate electric power from natural energy sources, such as sunlight, are given the privilege to sell it to major electric power companies at favorable prices fixed by the government. This program, known as...
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In Japan, heated debates take place on whether and how the country should accept unskilled foreign laborers. The Japanese government’s long-held principle that these laborers should not be allowed to work in Japan reflects citizens’ anxiety about the threat to job opportunities and...
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Japan’s general indirect tax, known as the Consumption Tax (CT), will undergo a comprehensive reform on October 1, 2019. The tax reform covers four major areas. First, the CT rate will increase from 8% to 10%. Second, the CT system will be converted from the long-lived single-rate...
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Japan has a unique (and complicated) pork import tariff system, called the gate price system. Under this system, importers can minimize their tariff payments by combining high-price (and high-quality) pork with low-price (and low-quality) pork to set the CIF price at 524 yen per...
INTRODUCTION
China is the biggest importer in the world pork market. Nearly 20% of pork exports in the world go to China.[1] Thus, China’s domestic supply-demand condition of pork provides significant impacts on the world pork price. This paper surveys the recent situation of China’s hog raising...
Yoshihisa Godo
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Meiji Gakuin UniversityJob Title
ProfessorE-mail
godo@eco.meijigakuin.ac.jpTopic
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Japan’s Farmland Policy for Photovoltaic Power Generation
Japan’s New Policy on Foreign Laborers and its Impact on the Agricultural Industry
Japan’s 2019 Tax Reform and its Impact on the Food Industry
Technical problems on Japan’s pork imports from the US
The Possibility of World Pork Price Surge Originating from China
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