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As Japanese pork production recovers from PEDv, Japanese beef production will likely continue along its recent downward trend in 2015.

The United States exported a record $9.7 billion of forest products in fiscal year 2014. Among U.S. agricultural exports, only corn and soybeans had higher export values.

The Japanese Government's Basic Plan for Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas, which sets Japan's agricultural policy direction for the next 10 years, is revised every five years.

After an absence of more than eleven years, the first shipment of U.S. processed beef products arrived in Japan on March 4, 2015.

ATO Tokyo Sponsors the USA Pavilion at FOODEX JAPAN 2015; Ambassador Kennedy Observes Silkworms for Genetically Engineered Application...

Implementation has begun on the International Strategic Bulk Port Project, designed to improve strategically important port facilities in order to reduce ocean transportation costs.

The Japanese feed industry relies almost entirely on imported grains.

The “Act for Protection of Designated Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuffs” is scheduled to be implemented on June 1, 2015.

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This is an updated guide to Japan’s $303 billion hotel, restaurant and institutional (HRI) food service market.

The Food Processing Sector in Japan remained stable in 2013, and the United States is still an important supplier.

Women play a very important role in the global agricultural workforce, and Japan is no exception.