Japan’s largest farmers’ group has opened its marketing base in Taiwan to boost Japanese farm and food exports.
This is the fifth overseas base for the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association (JA ZEN-NOH). The marketing arm of JA group has export hubs in the U.S.,...
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The 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have agreed to facilitate expansion of membership, once the trade pact comes into effect, informed sources said.
Before entering accession talks, countries wishing to join the TPP-11 must inform New Zealand, the depository of the TPP-11, of its...
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Cheese consumption in Japan has been growing, as people prefer eating at home than dining out to save some extra cash, official data has showed.
But Japanese farmers have failed to meet that demand as the domestic cheese production has been declining. So, floods of imports are taking advantage of...
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Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) trade chairman has said the upcoming ministerial-level trade talks with the U.S. should not lead to a free trade negotiation between the two.
“It is important that this dialogue should not become preliminary talks on launching official...
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Japan is finally set to make a further step to tackle for its chronical labor shortage: accepting more low-skilled foreign workers.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told labor-related ministers to speed up plans that bring in more low-skilled foreign workers to Japan at a July 24 meeting. Agriculture...
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Japan’s meat imports in the first half of 2018 broke the 1 million metric ton barrier for the first time in 20 years, as consumers tend to satisfy their growing demand through more cheap imports, data has showed.
Imports of red meat and poultry rose 2% to 1.02 million metric tons in the...
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Japan has published the text of the free trade deal with EU when both leaders signed the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in Tokyo on July 17.
Brussels had already released key elements of the trade deal one year earlier on the European Commission’s website, while Tokyo refused...
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For several months, developers and farmers in northeast Japan have been testing a new drone that can hover above paddy fields and perform backbreaking tasks in a fraction of the time it takes for elderly farmers.
Developers of the new agricultural drone say it offers high-tech relief for rural...