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Unit 02 Kick-off Paper： Agricultural Policy ―Points for Discussion
- Masayoshi Honma,
- 02_Agricultural policy,
- 21 August 2015
Masayoshi Honma
Professor
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Change is coming to Japan’s agriculture. Irrespective of the fate of the TPP negotiations, the nation’s agricultural sector must formulate a ...
Unit 02-B: Japan’s Agricultural Policy ―Escaping the Ancien Regime
- Kazuhito Yamashita,
- 02_Agricultural policy,
- 21 August 2015
Kazuhito Yamashita
Research Director
The Canon Institute for Global Studies
１．Factors in the decline of Japan’s agriculture
Japan’s agriculture is in decline. This decline is particularly conspicuous in the case of rice agriculture. Rice farms a...
Unit 02-A: Agricultural Policy and a New Direction for Agriculture in Japan
- Kazunuki Ohizumi,
- 02_Agricultural policy,
- 21 August 2015
Kazunuki Ohizumi
Project Leader
The 21st Century Public Policy Institute, Keidanren
I believe that in order to increase Japan’s agricultural output, we ultimately have no choice but to rely upon the small proportion of the nation’s farms which p...
