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TPP

EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2014
Focus less on food self-sufficiency
The government should stop obsessing about raising Japan's food self-sufficiency rate and instead diversify food-import sources.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 6, 2014
Ottawa TPP talks key to year-end trade deal: chief negotiator
Tokyo's point man in Pacific trade talks hails progress during Obama visit, but says a draft deal in 2014 depends on further breakthroughs now.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2014
Farmers fattening pigs with recycled food
Japan burns or buries 3.3 million tons of commercial food waste every year. Then it imports 10 million tons of corn to feed animals, more than any other country.

Longform

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan