Japan's demand for special consideration in liberalizing its farm sector was shot down Thursday by visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
"We must agree to disagree," Howard told a breakfast meeting of the Japan-Australia Diet Members League on the last of his three-day visit to Japan.
Howard was responding to a call by former foreign and trade minister Kabun Muto that Japan should be treated differently because it is somehow "unique."
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