Introduction
The Information Disclosure System of Farmlands (the ordinary name is National wide Navigation) for Farmlands, began operation from April in 2015. The purpose of this system is to disclose information of each parcel of farmland by GIS on web site, and promote consolidation of farmlands...
Recognition of current situation
The need to revise the intellectual property strategy
The food industry including agriculture, forestry and fisheries and related industries (hereinafter referred to as “food industry”), through the production activities for a long time, has created a...
INTRODUCTION
The provision of clean and safe water is one of the most basic public services offered by local governments. One of the major concerns of local governments during Japan's era of high economic growth in the 1970s is related to how they would satisfy the increasing water demand from...
ABSTRACT
In Japan, a lot of agricultural producers are eager to develop new varieties of food and foliage plants. Several tools are available in Japan for protecting intellectual property rights related to plants, including plant variety registration (PVR), patents and trademarks. Among them, PVR...
ABSTRACT
Japan seems to be doing successfully in terms of intellectual property (IP) protection and commercialization of innovation in the field of IT, electronics, machinery and chemistry, but not so successful in the field of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Therefore, over the last 10 years...
