IWC meets on commercial whaling

IWC meets on commercial whaling

AGADIR, Morocco - Japanese delegation head Yasue Funayama (L), Japanese parliamentary secretary for agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and Fisheries Agency head Katsuhiro Machida attend an annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Agadir, Morocco, on June 23, 2010.

Japan eyes expanding food labeling to restore consumer confidence

Japan eyes expanding food labeling to restore consumer confidence

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiro Machida, chief of the agriculture ministry's consumer safety bureau, address the inaugural meeting of a panel designed to consider an expansion of the food labeling system and other measures to restore consumer confidence at his ministry on July 10. The panel was launched following a recent false-labeling scandal involving a meat processor.

Japan eyes expanding food labeling to restore consumer confidenc

Japan eyes expanding food labeling to restore consumer confidenc

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiro Machida, chief of the agriculture ministry's consumer safety bureau, address the inaugural meeting of a panel designed to consider an expansion of the food labeling system and other measures to restore consumer confidence at his ministry on July 10. The panel was launched following a recent false-labeling scandal involving a meat processor. (Kyodo)

IWC meets on commercial whaling

IWC meets on commercial whaling

AGADIR, Morocco - Japanese delegation head Yasue Funayama (L), Japanese parliamentary secretary for agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and Fisheries Agency head Katsuhiro Machida attend an annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Agadir, Morocco, on June 23, 2010. (Kyodo)