Japan

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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Supporting New Entrants into Farming in Japan

Mari Izumi
INTRODUCTION One of the biggest issues of Japan’s agriculture is the continuous reduction or decline in the number of farmers. Farmers in Japan have decreased rapidly and have been getting old. Japan’s agricultural workforce has reduced from 3.9 million in 2000 to 1.8 million in 2018,...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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Policy Analysis of Implementing Food and Agricultural Education and Promoting Consumption of Domestic Agricultural Products in Japan

Effendi Andoko, Wan-Yu Liu
The Policy Content of Implementing Food Agriculture Education in Japan In recent years, with the development of Japanese society, the proportion of middle-aged people with metabolic syndrome has been increasing. In addition to the adult population, the problem of children's obesity also needs...
Country: Japan Topic: Others
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