Japan

Japan’s 2019 Tax Reform and its Impact on the Food Industry

Yoshihisa Godo
ABSTRACT 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...
Country: Japan Topic: Overview
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Realization of Society 5.0 by Utilizing Precision Agriculture into Smart Agriculture in NARO, Japan

Yuji Nagasaki
ABSTRACT Society 5.0 is the concept of a future industrial structure and the ideal of social system launched by Japan. The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) challenges to realize Society 5.0 with Smart Food Value Chain of breeding, cultivation, harvest, storage, processing...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Technical problems on Japan’s pork imports from the US

Hiroshi Takahashi, Yoshihisa Godo
ABSTRACT 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...
Country: Japan Topic: Import regulation and quarantine
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Certification System for Food Safety

Shunichi Matsui
ABSTRACT There are many food safety hazards that exist that make it difficult for experts to manage them perfectly. However, there are systematic methods of minimizing the occurrence of risks. One method is the third-party certification systems for food safety. This paper studies how the idea...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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Japan's Smart Food Value Chain: From Consumer to Agri-Food Industries

Toshio Ohtani
ABSTRACT   The Japanese Cabinet adopted the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan as a basic policy of science and technology innovation of five years from 2016 to 2020 and determined ‘Society 5.0’ as a future industrial structure and the ideal form of social system. Many of the...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural value chains
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