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TRADE

EDITORIALS
Apr 4, 2013
Cooperation with Mongolia
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his visit to Ulan Bator on March 30 agreed with Mongolian Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag and President Tsakhia Elbegdorj to promote bilateral cooperation in the fields of mineral resources development, trade relations and the environment. They also agreed to launch a trilateral...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 9, 2013
Obama puts ambitious trade talks on agenda
U.S. President Barack Obama, who has been critical of free-trade pacts in the past, is pursuing what are arguably the most aggressive trade talks in a generation.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Mar 5, 2013
Child's quibble with U.S. 'poverty superpower' propaganda unravels a sobering story about insular Japan
Last November, a reader in Hokkaido named Stephanie sent me an article read in Japan's elementary schools. Featured in a sixth-grader magazine called Chagurin (from "child agricultural green") dated December 2012, it was titled "Children of America, the Poverty Superpower" (hinkon taikoku Amerika no...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2013
U.S. says Keystone pipeline won't spur climate change
The U.S. State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting the project will have little impact on climate change.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2013
Panama Canal expansion spurs race to fit supersized ships
This is a story about big, and how one of the biggest construction projects in the world, the remaking of the Panama Canal, will let bigger boats sail into deeper harbors, where authorities are spending billions dredging channels, blasting tunnels and buying cranes from China the size of 14-story buildings...
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998
Ostracized burakumin leather tanners faced with new threat
The biggest victim of a leather products trade dispute between Japan and the European Union may turn out to be the hisabetsu buraku — the ostracized hamlets where many of Japan's social outcasts earn a living tanning leather.

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