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Japan registered the highest temperature in its history today, since measurements began - 41.8 degrees Celsius, reported the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency. The eastern city of Isesaki, in Gunma Prefecture, set the record, surpassing the previous peak value of 41.2 degrees, recorded last week in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, informed Japan's national meteorological service. Average temperatures in the country continue to rise after records were set for the third consecutive year last month. Critically low rainfall was observed along the coast of the Sea of Japan in the northeastern part of the country, raising concerns about the rice harvest. The high temperatures have led to the spread ...

While Japan was negotiating agricultural market access with the United States, Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi was busy implementing policy to abandon competitive bidding and set rice prices by government decree. This contradiction between Japan’s negotiating position and its domestic policy demonstrates a dangerous erosion of crisis standards that threatens both bilateral trade relations and the

[Korean Farmers' Newspaper] Recently, reports have proliferated about the U.S.-Japan mutual tariff negotiations, claiming that "Japan has opened its rice market," leading to arguments that Korea should also open its agricultural market to gain practical benefits such as reduced automobile tariffs. However, Japan's negotiation content merely adjusted the proportion of U.S. rice without increasing the total amount of rice imports. Japan's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries also clearly stated that "there will be no additional imported rice." To frame this as a "market opening" and exert pressure on Korean agriculture to open is a distortion of reality and irresponsible manipulation of public opinion. The situations of Korea and Japan are different. Japan's TRQ (Tariff Rate Quota) quantities are allocated by country.