Business leaders urge Japan to join Pacific FTA negotiations

Business leaders urge Japan to join Pacific FTA negotiations

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese business leaders (From L to R) -- Masamitsu Sakurai, head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Tadashi Okamura, leader of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation -- take part in a meeting hosted by the three organizations in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. The participants called on the government to announce its intention to join negotiations for a U.S.-backed multilateral trans-Pacific free trade agreement at an upcoming summit in Japan of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

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