Consumers Union of Japan works closely with a number of local groups around the country and abroad, to promote consumer rights, peace, food safety and food security and many other issues. Here are some recent stories from our office in Nishi-Waseda. Read more in Japanese in CUJ’s newsletter, Consumers Report. To receive the newsletter, please [...]

  12 years of campaigning for more domestic soybeans in Japan
Soybean Field Trust Movement: Nationwide Meeting in Shinjo, Japan 
Press Release: Conference Declaration 
Today, we have returned to Shinjo City in Yamagata Prefecture 12 years after the Soybean Trust Movement was launched here in this wonderful furusato (rural) environment. The Soybean Trust Movement responded to the appearance [...]

Today CUJ celebrates World Foodless Day 2009 at an event at the Tokyo Women’s Plaza in Shibuya, Tokyo with many NGOs, including PAN Japan, Tanemaki, Coop Shizenha in Tokushima, and other groups that focus on natural agriculture and rice farming, protecting rice paddies, as we together work for ensuring that consumers have access to safe food. The theme [...]

A quantitative analysis based on the Food Demand-Supply Table, the Guideline of Nutritional Requirement for the Japanese people, and the Local Production-Local Consumption principle
Toshiki MASHIMO
Paper presented at the World Foodless Day in Tokyo, October 16, 2008

The current world-wide food crisis has made it clear that the low Japanese food self-sufficiency ratio is the underlying [...]

Here is the presentation made by Yasuaki YAMAURA, Secretary General of Consumers Union of Japan (CUJ), as one of the programs at the World Foodless Day in Tokyo on October 16, 2008.

The Present Situation of the Food Crisis
 
In April 2008, rice prices started to increase rapidly in the Philippines and several parts of Asia. This induced [...]

Here is the presentation made by Keisuke AMAGASA, Chairperson of NO! GMO Campaign, as one of the programs at the World Foodless Day held in Tokyo on October 16, 2008.
Good afternoon. In my brief presentation, I would like to summarise the present state of genetically modified (GM) crop and food in 13 points, referring [...]

We invite you to join the World Foodless Day, an alternative to the UN World Food Day, in defense of people’s food sovereignty, the right to food for all, and land to landless farmers.
NGOs in Japan will organise events in Asakusa, old downtown in Tokyo.
Go to PAN AP’s website for detailed international information.
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