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Japan
New Zealand and Japan have taken a first step towards free trade negotiations, agreeing today to a study on the benefits of a closer economic partnership.
It's time to get serious about doing a trade deal with Japan, says free trade and business lobbyists, who say we've been neglecting our relationship with the world's second biggest economy.
Brief analysis of the AJCEPA text
Australia's free trade talks with Japan are moving forward on Japanese lines. Four days of talks in Canberra have ended with promising offers on services and investment, and progress in all areas - except agriculture.
Fourteen activists, most of them fisherfolk, braved the murky waters of Manila Bay Monday morning, swimming 10 kilometers from Bacoor, Cavite to the Senate gates in Pasay City to protest the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) and what was then the proposed "conditional concurrence" of the trade pact.
It's back to the negotiating table for the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) after Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Monday agreed to defer consideration of the treaty on the request of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo.
Anti-Jpepa (Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement) activists on Tuesday accused the Japanese Diet of pressuring the Philippine Senate to ratify the controversial RP-Japan economic pact.
Sectors from the urban poor, farmers, nurses, fisherfolk, labor and the environment gathered at a press conference on Saturday, calling on the Philippine Senate to reject the conditional concurrence resolution that Senator Miriam Santiago unveiled during her privilege speech at the Senate re-opening early last week.
The Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has asked the Senate to defer consideration of the controversial free trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan so that it can comply with the conditions set by the Senate for its ratification.
Business leaders from Japan and South Korea on Monday asked their governments to create a favorable environment for the two neighboring countries to restart negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement.
