Japan, China agree to boost exchanges over product safety

Japan, China agree to boost exchanges over product safety

BEIJING, China - Japan's agriculture minister Norihiko Akagi (L) presents a bag of Japanese rice to Li Changjiang, the minister in charge of China's safety watchdog, during a meeting in Beijing on July 25. Akagi said he and Li agreed to bolster exchanges over product safety in the face of growing international concerns over substandard Chinese exports. Akagi was in Beijing to promote the sales of Japanese rice, which will resume on July 26 after China's lifting of its four-year ban on their imports.

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