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Japan, U.S. to work to prevent recurrence of banned beef shipment

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn, U.S. undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 24 after a round of talks with Japanese foreign, farm and health ministry officials. Japan and the United States agreed to continue efforts to prevent a recurrence of the Jan. 20 incident in which a risk material for mad cow disease, banned in Japan, was discovered in a shipment of U.S. beef to Tokyo, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.

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Japan, U.S. hold senior working-level talks on beef issue

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn (R), U.S. undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, and Kaoru Ishikawa, chief of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, shake hands prior to the start of a bilateral senior working-level meeting on Japanese beef imports from the United States at the Foreign Ministry on Jan. 24.

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Japan, U.S. affirm aim to lift beef import ban next spring

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture J.B. Penn speaks at a press conference in the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Oct. 23 after Japan and the United States end three days of beef trade talks. (Pool photo)

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(1)Japan, U.S. fail to narrow gaps on U.S. beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn, chief delegate for the U.S. team, speaks to reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 23 after a one-day inconclusive Japan-U.S. talks on whether to lift Tokyo's import ban on U.S. beef. Penn described the meeting as ''meaningful and productive'' but acknowledged no new proposals were put forward from either side.

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Japan, U.S. begin discussing safety steps on BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakagawa (L), head of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry's Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, and J.B. Penn, undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shake hands at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 23 before they start talks on safety measures the United States is taking for its beef following the outbreak of mad cow disease there.

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U.S. will not present new safety steps for beef

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn, undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meets reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 22. He suggested that Washington has no plans to meet Tokyo's demand for new measures that will put the U.S. system on par with Japanese safety standards, under which all cattle are tested. (Pool photo)

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Japan, U.S. affirm aim to lift beef import ban next spring

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture J.B. Penn speaks at a press conference in the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Oct. 23 after Japan and the United States end three days of beef trade talks. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. hold senior working-level talks on beef issue

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn (R), U.S. undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, and Kaoru Ishikawa, chief of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, shake hands prior to the start of a bilateral senior working-level meeting on Japanese beef imports from the United States at the Foreign Ministry on Jan. 24. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. to work to prevent recurrence of banned beef shipmen

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn, U.S. undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 24 after a round of talks with Japanese foreign, farm and health ministry officials. Japan and the United States agreed to continue efforts to prevent a recurrence of the Jan. 20 incident in which a risk material for mad cow disease, banned in Japan, was discovered in a shipment of U.S. beef to Tokyo, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan, U.S. fail to narrow gaps on U.S. beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn, chief delegate for the U.S. team, speaks to reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Jan. 23 after a one-day inconclusive Japan-U.S. talks on whether to lift Tokyo's import ban on U.S. beef. Penn described the meeting as ''meaningful and productive'' but acknowledged no new proposals were put forward from either side. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. begin discussing safety steps on BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakagawa (L), head of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry's Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, and J.B. Penn, undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shake hands at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 23 before they start talks on safety measures the United States is taking for its beef following the outbreak of mad cow disease there. (Kyodo)