Japan

The gate price system for Japan’s pork imports

Yoshihisa Godo
Yoshihisa Godo Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan   Introduction Japan is one of the major nations in the global pork industry. Worldwide, Japan is ranked sixth in pork consumption, ninth in pork production, and first in pork imports (note 1). Domestic production contributes...
Country: Japan Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Japan

Yoshihisa Godo
Yoshihisa Godo Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan   Identified cases of Japanese cows infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by prions, which are...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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Non-Agricultural Companies’ Entry into the Agricultural Industry in Japan

Yoshihisa Godo
Yoshihisa Godo Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Introduction The entry of non-agricultural companies into the agricultural industry is a recent trend in Japan. Various types of companies, such as construction companies, staffing agencies, and electrical equipment companies, are...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Farmers Reaping Benefits with Apps

Ronald G. Mangubat
Ronald G.  Mangubat Information Officer of FFTC   Farmers at the Hikone Shiga Prefecture in Japan are becoming popular because they use the smartphone apps to help monitor crops and control production costs while the rapid aging farmer population continues to dwindle. According to an...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural science policies
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Community Order in Japanese Agriculture

Yoshihisa Godo
Community Order in Japanese Agriculture Yoshihisa Godo Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan   Community order and free-market competition Japanese agriculture is not sustainable without community order. To understand the importance of community order, it is useful to...
Country: Japan Topic: Rural development
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