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Monday, June 11, 2007
LDP panel wants SDF to take aim at harmful animalsJAPAN - Members of a Liberal Democratic Party panel want to give Self-Defense Forces' members the legal right to fire their weapons--at animals threatening the agriculture and fisheries industries. ...
Monday, November 27, 2006
Pork black market huge: dealersJAPAN - Not only have importers illegally evaded high tariffs on pork shipments, but the leading food companies that purchase it were well aware of that fact, several meat wholesalers have told The Asahi...
Monday, August 28, 2006
Japan to review labelling of meat importsJAPAN - Seeking to bar imported meat from being sold under well-known Japanese names, the Agriculture Ministry will establish a panel of experts Thursday to discuss new rules governing labelling, The Nihon...
Friday, August 18, 2006
Japan will import Polish porkTOKYO - Sumitomo Corp has teamed up with Smithfield Foods. to import Polish pork.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
PIC Ships Breeding Pigs To OkinawaJAPAN - Iwatani Camborough Co. Ltd. (ICC) has announced its first shipment of PIC breeding pigs to Okinawa prefecture, a chain of sub-tropical islands at the southwestern tip of the Japanese archipela...
Friday, April 14, 2006
Porkers pig out on excess riceJAPAN - Pigs fed with rice may be one solution to issues of the country's deteriorating food self-sufficiency and the preservation of farmland.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Japan Project Uses World Genetics To Produce Local PigsJAPAN - Hypor has embarked on a project with its Japanese counterpart to bring in new genes from the Hypor worldwide gene pool and increase the future genetic potential in the Japanese breeding population....
Friday, January 20, 2006
Japan finds BSE risk parts in US beef importsJAPAN - Japan is considering stopping all imports of U.S. beef - just a month after lifting a ban on the meat - after finding risk materials that could cause mad cow disease in a shipment from New York...
Friday, December 30, 2005
Japanese liquor 'Shochu' dregs make their way into pig feedJAPAN - Researchers are finding ways to recycle the huge amounts of residue left in the distillation of the popular "shochu" spirits, including feeding it to pigs.
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Monday, December 12, 2005
Japan eases ban on US, Canadian beef importsJAPAN - Japan on Monday eased a two-year-old ban on American beef imposed because of mad cow disease, averting a trade war with Washington where lawmakers had threatened retaliation unless beef trade resumed...
Monday, August 01, 2005
Japan ends blanket testing for mad-cow diseaseJAPAN - Japan dropped its policy of testing all cattle for mad cow disease on Monday and will only require checks to be conducted on cattle that are 21 months or older.
Monday, May 16, 2005
Crackdown eyed over Japanese pork launderingJAPAN - Prosecutors will establish a series of cases against pork brokers and executives of meat processors who have illegally evaded import taxes by manipulating tariffs on imported pork. Such...
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Fujichiku suspected of evading billions of yen in pork import dutyJAPAN - A Nagoya-based meat importer-wholesaler group is suspected of conspiring with a Taiwanese trading house to evade billions of yen in pork import tariffs by falsifying import prices declared to customs,...
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