Rice tariffication bill enacted

Rice tariffication bill enacted

Japan's Agriculture and Forestry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa bows in the House of Councillors on March 31 in appreciation of enactment of a bill to fully open the nation's rice market under a high tariff wall aimed to protect domestic rice growers. ==Kyodo

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