The United States agreed Wednesday to train workers handling beef exports to Japan and to double its final checks on beef shipments headed here, according to government officials on both sides.
But Tokyo is not completely satisfied.
At a two-day technical meeting between the two countries on U.S. beef that ended Wednesday in Tokyo, the two sides reached "a degree" of understanding, said Hirofumi Kugita, director of the farm ministry's animal health division.
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