Articles
-query word : Agriculture
September 17, 2009
The Policies Needed to Rebuild Japanese Agriculture
Agricultural policy was one of the major points of contention in Japan’s recent general election. The influence of rural voters ...
February 27, 2009
The Agricultural Cooperatives and
Farming Reform in Japan (2)
The collusive triangle of Japan’s agricultural cooperatives, Diet members defending agricultural interests, and MAFF continues to grow tighter, as shown ...
January 20, 2009
The Agricultural Cooperatives and
Farming Reform in Japan (1)
For the past half century, Japan's powerful organization of agricultural cooperatives has used its tremendous political clout, backed by ...
January 29, 2009
The Issues in the Farmland System
Tracing the history of how Japan's farmland system has been administered back to 1952, when the Agricultural Land Law was ...
December 04, 2008
Let Corporations Play a Role in Reviving Japanese Agriculture
Japan’s farming population is declining as the current generation of farmers ages amid a dearth of potential successors. With more ...
February 23, 2009
The Pros and Cons of Japan's Rice Acreage-Reduction Policy
Food security cannot be achieved without farmland. Yet the policy of trimming rice production by reducing rice acreage, which aims ...
September 30, 2008
The Perilous Decline of Japanese Agriculture
Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio has dropped below 40%, and global food price rises are beginning to squeeze household finances. Recent ...
September 30, 2008
The Perilous Decline of Japanese Agriculture
Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio has dropped below 40%, and global food price rises are beginning to squeeze household finances. Recent ...
