Japan Resources No. 140
CONTENTS:

Opposition Statement Regarding US Beef April 2007
ADB NGO Symposium
ADB: “Globalization and Japanese Agriculture”
Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement-A bad deal should be stopped
OIE Rates the United States as a “Controlled Risk” Country
“We demand that 100% BSE inspection should be continued in 2008?

Keep Moratorium on GM Canola (pdf)
The No! GMO Campaign and a large number of Japanese consumer organizations, including CUJ, and other NGOs are urging Australian local governments to keep the moratorium against genetically modified crops. Japan imports non-GM canola from Australia, and Japanese consumers want Australia to stay GMO-free.

Agenda Updated (pdf)
An international NGO Forum on Dioxin Pollution will be held in Tokyo september 1-2, 2007. There will be reports from Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Sweden and the United States, including discussions and Q&A session. The venue is JICA Institute for International Cooperation (map) at Ichigaya, Tokyo.
This forum is organized by the following NGO and [...]