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December 16, 2010

[SSJ: 6461] Re: Why Is Korea More Able to Reach FTAs Than Japan: An EU An...

From: Ira Wolf
Date: 2010/12/16

Sorry Okumura-san, but I do not have the emotional or intellectual energy to write or think at all about the film case, other than a rare and short reference to it. However, on TPP, although the headline story in Japan is agriculture, that is because the Japanese media does not understand what is really involved in these negotiations and the degree to which they will get into a number of different sectors and cross-cutting economic and regulatory policies. Postal privatization, and all that includes, would be another big challenge, but there are likely to be many others.
This will become clearer as the negotiations among the 9 countries currently discussing TPP proceed over the next few months.

Ira Wolf

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