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Rice Farming in the Japan’s Matured Market: Overcoming the Shrinking Domestic Demand by Value-Adding and Export-Enhancing Strategies

Katsumi Arahata
ABSTRACT Rice and its farming have been culturally the backbone of Japan's society so far. However, Japan's rice farming is facing an unprecedented turning point, in which this role will seemingly be doomed to being weakened due to the shrinking domestic demand. The purpose of this paper...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural marketing policy
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Let’s Start GAP (Good Agricultural Practice)

Mari Izumi
This leaflet introduces you “The management package for agricultural production (GAP)”, which has increasingly attracted to agricultural industries. To begin with, please answer the following questions: Q1 (food safety): What happens to your farm if the products shipped from your farm...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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Introduction to the Income Insurance System of Japan

Fumihiro Kabuta
The following is the translation of section 7 of “Agriculture Competitiveness Reinforcement Program” which was approved by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Regions Vitalization Creation Headquarters (headed by Prime Minister Abe) in the Cabinet on 29th November 2016. The...
Country: Japan Topic: Farmers' welfare and retirement system
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Impact of Japan-EU EPA on Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products by Commodities

  ORIGINAL DOCUMENT 「日EU・EPAにおける品目ごとの農林水産物への影響について」(Written in Japanese) http://www.maff.go.jp/j/kanbo/eu_epa/attach/pdf/index-7.pdf   accessed November 4, 2017 「日EU・EPAにおける品目ごとの農林水産物への影響について（総括表）」(Written in Japanese) http://www.maff.go.jp/j/kanbo/eu_epa/attach/pdf/index-10.pdf...
Country: Japan Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Japanese Sake Export and Sakamai Production

Kunio Nishikawa
INTRODUCTION Japanese Sake (rice wine) is the traditional Japanese beverage made from rice. It is considered as one of the most popular beverages in Japanese food culture. It is now enjoyed all over the world because of its good flavor and taste especially if it is served together with other...
Country: Japan Topic: Agribusiness
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