16-Nov-2010
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Hundreds of people staged a rally Saturday in central Yokohama to voice their opposition to Japan and other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum members taking steps to accelerate "unprincipled" trade liberalization, saying the measures would destroy people’s livelihoods and devastate farmers.
2-Nov-2010
Financial Times
Takashi Shinohara, senior vice minister for agriculture, strongly denies Japanese media reports that Tokyo has already decided to launch talks with the US and others on entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
28-Oct-2010
Asahi Shimbun
Concerns and demands from Japan’s closest trade partner, the United States, have complicated Tokyo’s increasingly contentious plan to enter negotiations for the creation of an Asia-Pacific free trade zone.