INTRODUCTION
For years, food nutrition labeling had not been compulsory in Japan. In response to consumers’ increasing concerns about food safety, however, the Japanese government, which many perceive as the slowest among major advanced countries, introduced a compulsory nutrition labeling...
Last September 15 and 16 Japanese Professor Masayoshi Honma, a world famous agricultural economist, delivered his lecture on the “Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Under the Abe Administration”at Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture and the Department of Agricultural Economics, National...
Purpose
The Japanese government enacts Geographical Indication (GI) protection legislation which registers agricultural, forestry and fishery products and foodstuffs that own their tradition and specificity attributed to the geographical area and own brand names which are connected and...
ABSTRACT
Faced with the continuing shortage of farm successors in aging farming households in Japan, the farm succession to non-family members draws significant attention as an alternative to the conventional transfer to family heirs. To illuminate the characteristics and challenges in...
Seiji Mitsuishi
Job Title
Professor, Jissen Wamen's University; Professor Emeritus, Miyagi UniversityE-mail
mitsuishi-seiji@jissen.ac.jpLatest Submission from Japan
A Review of Food Nutrition Labeling in Japan
由日本食品標籤看其營養標示制度
TPP and Agricultural Reform under the Abe Administration
Acts to Protect Names of Designated Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuffs (Summary)
Succession of Farmlands to Non-Family Successors: Options for the Young Generation of Farmers
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