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After an absence of more than eleven years, the first shipment of U.S. processed beef products arrived in Japan on March 4, 2015.

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Implementation has begun on the International Strategic Bulk Port Project, designed to improve strategically important port facilities in order to reduce ocean transportation costs.

The marketing year (MY) 2015/16 corn production is forecast at 23.4 million metric tons (MMT).

The Japanese feed industry relies almost entirely on imported grains.

In the past decade, one of the most apparent trends agricultural trade patterns has been the growth in agricultural trade between developing countries or so-called “South-South trade.”

In February 2015 an Illinois-based grocery manufacturing and processing business contacted USDA FAS Washington over problems exporting cheese to Mexico.

Mexico’s beef and pork production are revised higher due to strong market incentives that are promoting higher than expected slaughter.

The “Act for Protection of Designated Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuffs” is scheduled to be implemented on June 1, 2015.

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This is an updated guide to Japan’s $303 billion hotel, restaurant and institutional (HRI) food service market.

The Food Processing Sector in Japan remained stable in 2013, and the United States is still an important supplier.