Articles
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February 19, 2010
Regulatory Reform for Japan's Watershed Forests: Protecting a Public Good
Who is buying up Japan's forests? Foreign-owned businesses hoping to exploit their water resources, according to one theory. Whatever the ...
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 ...
