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Please write 2 pages on your viewpoint of how you feel writing a paper in the position of a Japanese Senior fellow (in the box below)  Please write a 2 page research paper on from the standpoint of your role, backed up with 3 pages minimum of Appendices with all the data you need handy for the negotiation USING THESE SOURCES AND PLEASE INCLUDE 3 APPENDICES WITH ALL SOURCES you would need for the negotiation listed below: 

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My role was Kazuhito, Yamashita Senior Fellow, The Tokyo Foundation and Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (REITI) 


Background: Rice has been one of the major areas of Japanese protectionism from a U.S. perspective.  With the flood of Japanese imports during the 1980’s, the tension between the U.S. and Japan over “protectionism” of Japanese agriculture came intense.  The sale of California rice has once again come up for negotiation.  The WTO negotiations in Cancun “the rice” issue was a major obstacle in negotiations.  Although significant reforms are being proposed with respect to Japanese agriculture, rice farmers in particular continue to be a strong lobby against further access of foreign rice, especially from California, into its consumer markets.  

Negotiation: The two teams have been negotiating for over eight months to craft a rice deal for Japan to purchase California rice.  The team has met in person and by conference call over these eight months in Tokyo, Sacramento, and Washington D.C.  At the last face-to-face meeting in Tokyo, the team hammered out a deal in which the Japanese would purchase committed to meet the quotas established.  What remained to be negotiated was the actual access to the end Japanese consumer.  The California Rice is sold directly to the Japanese government through the Japan Food Department (JFD).  Although establishing a fairly good track of meeting the commitments to purchase California rice, Japan has been reluctant to put much of this rice into the Japanese market for consumers to purchase. The JFD withholds import rice stocks from their market and uses it primarily for re-export to meet Japan’s humanitarian efforts or used in their food processing industry.  At the last meeting, both parties agreed to establish minimum access commitments over the next 5 years.  At the present time, less than .5% of this rice reaches the Japanese consumers as retail banded products.  Both parties are anxious to wrap up the negotiations because the Prime Minister of Japan is due to visit the White House in 6 weeks.  Both the White House and Tokyo want the final agreement signed by the trade delegations from both countries at the White House. 


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This paper critically focuses on the role that Kazuhito Yamashita Senior Fellow of the
Tokyo foundation and research institute of economy, trade and industry (REITI) in the Japanese
and US rice negotiations. The process of negotiation depends on several factors amongst them
set of legislations by the two countries to advance their interest in the rice industry. On the part
of Japanese team, the need to protect local rice industry from exports from external market is
apparent. The treatment is the same for the rice from the united state with reservation established
to stipulate the extent to which the rice is sellable in the country. Rice farmers in Japan have
facilitated the approach adopted in the negotiation for lobbying against further im...


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