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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/24/07
Index:
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
4) USFJ realignment bill passes Diet, with carrot-stick provisions
to ensure Futenma relocation 3
5) Japan's share of cost of relocating Okinawa Marines remains
elusive
6) Government pleased with passage of USFJ realignment bill but
base-hosting local governments remain perplexed
7) Defense white paper for 2007 emphasizes need to strengthen system
for international peacekeeping operations
8) LDP studying possibility of posting SDF as security guards at
embassies in Iraq and other countries
9) US, Japan to push for language in G-8 summit statement on use of
atomic energy as global warming countermeasure
10) New Komeito gives approval to discussions on collective
self-defense scenarios by Prime Minister Abe's private council
11) Prime Minister Abe informs Philippines President Aroya that
Japan will restart grant aid to that country
12) Japan, Russia to cooperate on nuclear power, IT
13) US House of Representatives delays vote until June of
controversial sex-slavery resolution calling on Japan to apologize
to WWII comfort women
14) Diet debate heating up over the issue of "politics and money"
15) Opposition wants Matsuoka summoned to Diet as witness
16) US, Japan to enter talks on reviewing import restrictions on US
beef
17) US pressuring Japan to recognize the safety of US beef
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi and Tokyo Shimbun:
Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office to begin investigation into
Japan Green Resources Agency today to file charges against four
former executives; Director ordered to lower estimated contract
prices
Mainichi and Sankei:
Lay judges to receive up to 10,000 yen a day
Yomiuri:
Ruling bloc to produce legislation requiring Social Insurance Agency
to examine 50 million cases with no records
TOKYO 00002323 002 OF 011
Nihon Keizai:
JAL asks main banks for capital infusion of 200-400 billion yen
Akahata:
LDP received 360 million yen in four years in donation from life,
nonlife firms that failed to pay 63.5 billion yen in insurance
claims
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1)Politics and money: Ethics guidelines trampled on
(2)US forces realignment legislation: The government jumped the gun
Mainichi:
(1)US forces realignment: Public understanding insufficient
(2)Politics and money: Public does not want to see mudslinging
contest
Yomiuri:
(1)Realignment of US forces should be sped up
(2)Roller coasters must be checked
Nihon Keizai:
(1)Future of inward-looking mega-banks worries us
(2)US forces realignment law requires clear implementation
Sankei:
(1)US forces realignment law enacted: Smooth implementation of law
urged
(2)Banks' earning reports point to need for more service-oriented
competition
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1)Prime Minister Abe must not defend MAFF Minister Matsuoka
(2)US forces realignment law: Money-and-pressure approach
insufficient
Akahata:
(1)Money and politics: PM Abe must stop defending MAFF Minister
Matsuoka
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, May 23
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
May 24, 2007
08:12:
Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shimomura at Kantei.
09:00:
Attended a Lower House Budget Committee session.
13:01:
Arrived at Kantei.
14:12:
Attended a regular general meeting of Nippon Keidanren at Keidanren
Hall at Ote-machi, Tokyo.
14:52:
Met with Fukuoka Gov. Aso, chair of the National Association of
Governors at Kantei.
15:13:
TOKYO 00002323 003 OF 011
Met with US Cherry Blossom Queen Jennifer Elkins and Japan Cherry
Blossom Queen Michiru Hirabayashi
15:25:
Met with Japan Medical Association President Yoshihito Karasawa with
House of Councillors member Hidetoshi Nishijima present. Afterwards,
visited an exhibition and sale of Okinawa kariyushi wear.
16:08:
Met with Philippines President Arroyo at Kantei. Afterwards, met
with MOF Vice Finance Minister Fujii, MOF Budget Bureau
Director-General Tsuda and MOF Tax Bureau Director-General Ishii.
17:14:
Attended a meeting on overseas economic cooperation.
18:14:
Met with Ryo Ishikawa, the youngest-ever winner on the men's
professional golf tour.
18:42:
Attended a reception of the summit of farm, forestry, and fishing
villages.
19:15:
Attended a welcoming dinner party hosted by Philippine Ambassador to
Japan Siazon at Imperial Hotel.
19:36:
Met with leaders of 13 local newspaper companies, including Chairman
Bungo Shirai of the Chunichi Shimbun, at the Japan Press Center
Building at Uchisaiwai-cho, joined by Special Advisor Seko.
21:00:
Arrived at Kantei residence.
4) USFJ realignment bill passes Diet: Uses carrot-stick approach to
Futenma relocation; Subsidies to local government would be paid out
piecemeal
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
May 24, 2007
What should be done to best promote the relocation of the US forces'
Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, which is facing much local
opposition, and the moving of Okinawa-based US Marines to Guam? To
answer that question, the government drafted a special measures bill
for USFJ realignment, which passed the Diet yesterday. Although it
includes new subsidies to local governments that are cooperative
toward the realignment plan, the noticeable feature of the law is
the piecemeal payment approach to those communities that do not
cooperate. To bring about the relocation of Futenma that has been
stalled for over 10 years, the Defense Ministry has adopted an
unbending position.
Under the newly established realignment subsidy plan, the scheme for
paying out subsidies proceeds in stages: 1) announcement of
acceptance of government's plan; 2) start of environmental survey;
3) start of construction of facility; and 4) completion of facility.
Put another way, even if there is verbal acceptance of the plan, as
long as work does not actually start, the subsidies for the next
stage will not be paid out.
5) Japan's share of cost of Guam relocation of Okinawa Marines
remains unclear
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
May 24, 2007
One major element in the Special Measures Law on the Realignment of
TOKYO 00002323 004 OF 011
US Forces in Japan is the relocation of approximately 8,000 US
Marines from Okinawa to the island of Guam. In order to cover the
cost of the move, Japan is prepared to offer the US side through the
Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) a financing and
investment package. However, there are many areas that remain
unclear about the total cost of realignment and Japan's share of it.
Although a computer simulation came out with a total of $26 billion
(approximately 3 trillion yen) as the cost of realignment, Defense
Minister Fumio Kyuma dodged the issue, saying, "The US side used the
word 'about' when it discussed the figure, so nothing has yet been
decided." According to the agreement, the total expense for the Guam
relocation would be $10.27 billion, and Japan would provide $6.19
billion of this. The plan also is to spend $2.55 billion to build
3,500 dwellings for the Marines that would be financed by JBIC. The
calculation is that it would cost 80 million yen per housing unit,
but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a reply to a question would go no
farther than to say, "We will now boil it down."
6) Gov't getting tough for US military realignment
ASAHI (Page 4) (Abridged)
May 24, 2007
The government will now urge local governments to take on the burden
of hosting US military forces with subsidies that are tantamount to
carrots and sticks. A bill for special measures to facilitate the
planned realignment of US forces in Japan was endorsed by the House
of Councillors in its plenary sitting yesterday, and the government
will gear up for realignment plans. Many local governments have
already shown their intention to accept the burden of hosting US
forces. However, there are also some local governments strongly
repulsed by such an approach of the government. Local governments
will be pressed to make a difficult choice given their dire fiscal
straits.
"The government is going to fulfill its obligations for those
determined (to accept the burden) for the nation's security. This is
a plan to subsidize them." With this, Prime Minister Abe stressed
the significance of such realignment subsidization before the House
of Councillors Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in its meeting
on May 22.
According to the Defense Facilities Administration Agency, 69 local
governments will be burdened with more military functions in the
planned realignment of US forces in Japan. Among them, 48 have shown
their understanding to a certain extent on their acceptance of the
burden.
The government plans to subsidize base-hosting local governments
cooperating on the realignment in four stages: 1) accepting a
realignment plan; 2) starting an environmental impact assessment; 3)
starting construction work; and 4) completing construction work. In
other words, this is an incentive system to pay money according to
the degree of their cooperation.
What lies behind the government's introduction of such a new system
is the fact that the government could not obtain local cooperation
although it invested a total of 70 billion yen in Okinawa
Prefecture's northern district where the US Marine Corps' Futenma
Air Station was to be relocated in accordance with an agreement
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reached in 1996 at the Japan-US Special Action Committee on
Facilities and Areas in Okinawa (SACO).
Such a get-tough stance of the government is bewildering and
dissatisfying local governments. The mayor of Iwakuni City in
Yamaguchi Prefecture has rejected a proposal to redeploy
carrier-borne fighter jets to a US military base in the city. The
government, in its budget for the current fiscal year, discontinued
a 3.5-billion-yen subsidy for the city government's plan to
construct a new office building. The city's conservative assembly
members petitioned Defense Minister Kyuma to revise the subsidy.
However, Kyuma flatly rejected their petition.
The government plans to relocate Futenma airfield to Cape Henoko in
Okinawa Prefecture's northern coastal city of Nago. The Defense
Ministry sent a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel to waters near
the cape to look into the current state of the environment. In its
aftermath, the government is now facing a strong backlash from local
communities.
The now-enacted special measures law also features funding from the
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to foot the
bill-estimated at approximately 6 billion dollars-for transferring
US Marine Corps troops from Okinawa to Guam.
In the Diet, opposition parties called for the government time and
again to come up with the grounds for the cost of relocating Marines
to Guam and also for the total cost of US military realignment plans
estimated at approximately 3 trillion yen. However, the government
did not present the grounds, explaining that it has yet to finalize
estimates.
One official of the government says Japan's share in the cost of
transferring US Marines Corps troops from Okinawa to Guam is a kind
of severance money because the government will need the omoiyari
yosan (literally "sympathy budget" or host nation support) if the US
military continues to station troops in Japan.
The question, however, is why Japan will have to pay the cost of
housing construction for US forces in a foreign country. The
government has yet to answer this question. Moreover, it is a
project to be funded with a huge amount of money. Accordingly, the
government should fulfill its accountability, as a matter of
course.
7) 2007 Defense White Paper stipulates enhanced international
peacekeeping activities
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
May 24, 2007
The Defense Agency will release the 2007 Defense White Paper - its
first since becoming a ministry - in June. The white paper includes
a new chapter on the Self-Defense Forces' primary duties, including
international peacekeeping activities, while referring to enhanced
systems for planning and emergency situations. The paper also
expresses concern over the ballistic missile launches and the
nuclear test by North Korea, highlighting the need to accelerate the
plan to install a missile defense system.
The paper also mentions China's military buildup in referring to the
military balance with Taiwan, while underlining the importance of
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realigning US forces in Japan. It also clearly notes a shift in
emphasis from deterrence to improved capabilities to respond to
terrorist and guerilla attacks.
8) LDP panel: Task SDF with security guard at overseas diplomatic
posts
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Abridged)
May 24, 2007
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party yesterday revealed the draft of
a final report worked out by its special committee on strengthening
diplomatic capabilities. In its report, the committee, chaired by
former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, calls for strengthening the
security of Japanese diplomatic establishments abroad to meet the
threats of terrorists, suggesting the need to deploy bulletproof
vehicles and increase the number of security guards. The final
report also calls on the government to consider legislating special
measures for the security of Japanese diplomatic posts in
particularly dangerous regions, including Iraq and Afghanistan. In
this regard, the report recommends the government to come up with a
plan, including the advisability of tasking the Self-Defense Forces
with the security of Japanese diplomatic posts, including
bodyguards. This would expand the scope of SDF responsibilities
overseas.
9) Heiligendamm Summit: Japan, US to propose including promotion of
nuclear power generation in chairman's statement as part of efforts
to combat climate change
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 5) (Full)
May 24, 2007
The governments of Japan and the United States plan to suggest that
the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm in June mention the importance of
nuclear power generation in its chairman's statement. Nuclear power,
which is almost free from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, is an
effective measure against climate change, which is to be high on
agenda in the upcoming G-8 summit. This proposal is also intended to
contain soaring oil prices across the world because of growing
demand in China and other newly emerging economies.
Japan and the US have sought to include such passages as "Using
nuclear energy is of help in combating climate change and in terms
of energy security" in the statement. They also are expected to set
the nonproliferation and safety as conditions for promotion of
nuclear energy.
Nuclear power generation is drawing attention as a means to prevent
global warming, but Germany, the host of the summit, takes issue
with the risk of nuclear accidents, such as radiation leaks, and is
cautious about mentioning nuclear energy in the chairman's
statement.
10) New Komeito decides to allow exercising the defense right in
dealing with four scenarios, now under study by blue-ribbon panel
SANKEI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
May 24, 2007
The New Komeito decided yesterday to allow the country to exercise
the right to collective self-defense in four scenarios now under
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study, providing the government interprets them as falling within
the scope of the right to individual self-defense. The party upholds
the traditional constitutional interpretation that the country is
not allowed to exercise the collective defense right. But the
party's stance might end up expanding the gap with Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, who wants to strengthen the Japan-US alliance, and
placing strains on the framework of the ruling coalition. This
realization seems to have forced the party to make a compromise with
the government.
A blue-ribbon panel on the legal foundation for national security,
chaired by former Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, is
currently studying the following four scenarios in compliance with
Abe's request: (1) whether Japan can intercept a ballistic missile
targeting the United States, (2) whether a Maritime Self-Defense
Force vessel can counterattack when a US warship sailing alongside
is attacked on the high seas, (3) whether SDF troops can return fire
if other countries' soldiers come under attack while taking part in
the same UN peacekeeping operations, and (4) Japan is currently
allowed to extend logistical support only to countries carrying out
PKO in non-combat areas free from the use of force. Should this
condition be maintained as is? The panel envisages allowing the
country to exercise the right to collective self-defense.
New Komeito Representative Akihiro Ota warned the panel that it must
not allow the country to exercise the collective defense right in a
piecemeal manner. Secretary General Kazuo Kitagawa also said in a
strong tone: "There is no need to make changes to the government's
interpretation of the collective defense right." The opposition bloc
is also making moves to discourage the panel's discussion in tandem
with the New Komeito. The government is growing distrustful of the
New Komeito, with an Abe aide saying: "With the Upper House election
coming up, the New Komeito has nothing else on its mind."
Given the situation, the New Komeito has shifted its policy course
and decided to allow the SDF to return fire in the four scenarios in
the name of exercising the individual defense right instead of the
collective defense right.
11) Abe tells Philippine President Arroyo about resumption of grant
aid to her country
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
May 24, 1007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday met with visiting Philippine
President Arroyo at the Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
and conveyed to her a plan to resume grand aid to her country after
a lapse of four years. Japan has suspended grant aid to the
Philippines since 2003 because of the delay in tax refunds in that
country for goods procured from Japan with money provided by Japan.
The Abe administration will obtain cabinet approval of grant aid to
the Philippines consisting of 600 million yen in antiterrorism
measures and 780 million yen in disaster-prevention measures by the
end of the month.
Arroyo revealed that North Korea was expected to take part in the
ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) session set for August. Considering that
the members of the six-party talks discussing the nuclear issue will
be present, Arroyo said, "I hope to see a ministerial-level meeting
take place on that occasion."
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Abe emphasized the need for North Korea to fully implement the
first-stage action as agreed on in the February six-party talks,
such as shutting down and sealing the nuclear facilities.
Abe invited Arroyo to make a formal visit to Japan, and Arroyo
accepted this invitation.
12) Japan, Russia to cooperate on nuclear power, IT
SANKEI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
May 24, 2007
The government decided yesterday to strengthen cooperation in
Russia's planned projects to construct a nuclear power plant and
IT-related facilities in the Russian Far East and East Siberia.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce this policy during a
bilateral meeting with President Putin to be held on the sidelines
of the June G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. An increasing number of
Russians have been flowing out of the said region, and China has
begun to exert greater influence there. By boosting cooperation,
Japan aims to hold in check China's moves to develop resources and
to cooperate with Russia in building infrastructure.
The Japanese and Russian foreign ministers agreed in their meeting
in Moscow on May 3 that the two countries would prepare cooperative
projects to develop natural resources in the Russian Far East and
East Siberia. The Japanese government wants to urge Russia to
conclude a nuclear power cooperation agreement, eyeing technical
cooperation in Russia's plan to construct a nuclear power plant.
In the IT sector, Japan and Russia will confirm a plan to lay a
marine cable connecting Hokkaido and Sakhalin later this year, as
well as to promote technical cooperation on the purification of
liquefied natural gas. The two countries will also specify technical
cooperation on high-speed railways and in other energy-related
areas.
The presence of China, which is growing in the Russian Far East and
East Siberia, has prompted Japan and Russia to come closer to each
other. Russians are continuing to leave the region. Meanwhile,
Chinese merchants have entered and formed Chinese enclaves. In
addition, in a project to construct pipelines in the East Siberia,
over which Japan and China were struggling, the construction of the
route to China is likely to start first.
13) Roll call for House comfort women resolution put off
SANKEI (Page 1) (Full)
May 24, 2007
Takashi Arimoto, Washington
The US House of Representatives decided on May 22 to put off taking
a vote on a comfort women resolution introduced in the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs until June because the committee will
go into recess due to the Memorial Day holiday later this month. The
sponsors of the bill, including Representative Mike Honda (D-CA),
had been gearing up to put the bill to the vote by the end of May,
but Chairman Lantos and others "decided to delay taking a vote,
"giving consideration to relations with Japan" as Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe visited the United States in late April, a congressional
source explained.
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At a committee meeting yesterday, various kinds of bills were
processed ahead of the committee going into recess, but they did not
include the comfort women bill. The bills adopted included the one
expressing gratitude to South Korea's efforts in the war on terror
and the one calling on China, which backs Sudan in the Darfur
dispute, to exercise an influence on Sudan to prevent genocide.
Given that the sponsors of the comfort women bill have now topped
100 lawmakers, the criterion figure for vote-taking, there is still
a chance that the bill will be put to the vote in June.
During his visit to the US, Abe met with House Speaker Pelosi and
Chairman Lantos and said: "I sympathize with former comfort women
from my heart and I apologize to them for their having been placed
in a such a situation."
Senator Inouye of the Democratic Party is working on the
congressmen, for instance, by sending letters seeking a delay in
taking a vote on the bill, noting: "(The resolution) is unnecessary
and it will have an adverse effect on relations with Japan."
14) Intensive deliberations on issue of "politics and money" at
Lower House Budget Committee; Ruling, opposition parties lash out at
each other
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Excerpts)
May 24, 2007
Yesterday in a House of Representatives Budget Committee, the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the leading opposition party
Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) severely criticized each
other's bills to reform the Political Funds Control Law. With the
House of Councillors election drawing closer, the two parties tried
to play up their efforts to deal with the issues involving politics
and money to voters.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka
again refused to disclose the details of his political fund
management organization's huge utility expenses, although Satoshi
Takayama of Minshuto asked him to unveil them. However, Katsuya
Okada, vice president of the largest opposition party, who took the
floor following Takayama, did not grill Matsuoka on the issue,
turning his attack on the ruling-coalition-proposed bill revising
the Political Funds Control Law.
Since the discovery of Matsuoka's enormous utility expenses,
Minshuto has yet to purse the ruling camp since it has not secured
new means of attacking the ruling coalition.
In an attempt to make a breakthrough the situation, as Okada thinks
that the opposition, too, is being criticized by the public, he took
a strategy of spotlighting the Abe government's negative stance
toward the issue of "politics and money."
Okada pointed out that the ruling coalition's bill requires only
political fund management organizations to attach to fund reports
receipts for expenditures of 50,000 yen or more for office expenses
(excluding labor costs). He bitterly criticized the ruling
coalition-proposed bill, saying, "It's a law of loopholes," noting
that if a politician has both a funding management body and a
political organization, he may file expenditures in reports by the
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political organization, which has no such obligation.
15) SDP head demands Agriculture Minister Matsuoka be summoned as
witness
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full)
May 24, 2007
In a press conference yesterday, Social Democratic Party Chairperson
Mizuho Fukushima called for testimony before the Diet by
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka,
who has been under fire for reporting enormous utility expenses at
his rent-free government office. Fukushima criticized Matsuoka's
reply made at a session of the House of Representatives Budget
Committee, saying, "He was utterly insincere. It is inexplicable
that he made the reply without checking it on his own."
16) Japan, US likely to hold talks on review of US beef import
conditions next month
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 5) (Full)
May 24, 2007
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister
Toshikatsu Matsuoka told reporters in Tokyo yesterday that if the
United States officially asks Japan for talks on a review of Japan's
import conditions for US beef, Japan will accept the request. This
development follows the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE)
decision to classify the US as a country allowed to export beef
irrespective of cattle age. The two countries are expected to start
talks in June, at the earliest, should no problem be found in the
ongoing inspections by officials from the MAFF and the Ministry of
Health, Labor and Welfare of meatpacking plants in the US.
The agriculture minister indicated a willingness to hold talks with
the US for the first time. Matsuoka said: "The OIE authorization
does not directly lead to an immediate relaxation of Japan's import
conditions," but added: "(If the US requests hold talks a review of
the conditions), the matter will be discussed at the Food Safety
Commission (FSC). A certain period of time will be needed for
necessary procedures."
Once the ongoing inspections in the US are over, Japan will
ascertain with the US in June whether the plants have observed
Japan's import requirements, such as the removal of specified risk
materials. Should no problem be reported, Japan and the US will
launch negotiations on a review of the import requirements.
Japan limits US beef imports to those from cattle 20 months of age
or younger. But the age limit of cattle is set at 30 months under an
international standard, so both sides are expected to discuss
raising the age limit. The Food Safety Commission will discuss
whether new import requirements are appropriate in light of securing
safety. Based on its judgment, a final decision will be made.
17) US set to apply greater pressure on Japan, with seal of
international approval of safety of US beef
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 9) (Excerpts)
May 24, 2007
Shinichi Hisadome, Washington
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The safety of US beef has now been internationally recognized. The
United States Congress and the livestock industry anticipate that
the international endorsement will contribute to an expansion of US
beef exports. The Department of Agriculture has indicated that it
would urge its trade partners to ease their import conditions,
including an age-limit regulation. It is now certain that the US
will ratchet up pressure on Japan.
In its ongoing general meeting in Paris, the World Organization for
Animal Health (OIE) decided to classify the US as a "controlled-risk
country" and allow it to export beef irrespective of cattle age,
following five countries classified as "negligible-risk countries"
including Australia. Although the condition of limiting imports of
specified risk materials to those from cattle 30 months of age or
younger will be added, the seal of international approval has been
given to US beef.
US Agriculture Secretary Johanns issued a statement welcoming the
OIE decision. In it, he indicated a tougher stance toward trade
partners, saying: "We will take every possible means to urge them to
adopt a set of international standards." He apparently is taking aim
at Japan. Japan currently limits imports of US beef to those from
cattle 20 months of age or younger. The US is expected to apply
greater pressure on Japan to remove the age limit.
Japan abolished the quantity restriction it had imposed on US beef
imports in the spring of 1991. The value of Japan's annual imports
of US beef had reached 1.3 billion dollars by December 2003, when
Japan banned US beef imports in reaction to the discovery of the
first case of BSE in the US. Japan was the largest foreign market
for the US livestock industry.
According to a report released by the US Trade Representative (USTR)
this March, however, US beef exports to Japan between last July and
December were worth only 50 million dollars, less than one-tenth of
that recorded at their peak.
Given growing dissatisfaction in the US livestock industry, the US
Congress has indicated a tough stance toward Japan. Hearing the OIE
decision, the chairman of the US Senate Finance Committee, Senator
Max Baucus, expressed his willingness to back up the Agriculture
Department in its negotiations with Japan, saying: "It has become
clear that the import restrictions imposed by Japan and other
countries have no scientific basis."
SCHIEFFER