Governor leads protest to protect farmer incomes

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Okinawa's agricultural and animal industries are worried about the effects of a proposed change to a 19-year-old customs duty taxes structure, and the Governor has joined in the latest demonstration demanding more be done to protect local industry.Governor Hirokazu Nakaima led a weekend rally attracting more than 10,000 at Naha City’s Onoyama Park, telling citizens “We have to get together to have power to express our opinions, and fight to keep our lifestyle.

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Governor Hirokazu Nakaima led a weekend rally attracting more than 10,000 at Naha City’s Onoyama Park, telling citizens “We have to get together to have power to express our opinions, and fight to keep our lifestyle.

That is code for give us subsidies to support us because we are not competitive enough to create a product that can compete alongside other countries' products. The rest of Japan should protect us and send us tax dollars.

Agreements have been in place since 1988 that protect farmers by limiting imports of items like pineapples. Naha City Mayor Takeshi Onaga, whose city hosted the rally, said “We have to protect our agricultural products, and we need to inform our children to continue protecting our natural environment. They cannot stop.”

Then why are you not setting a good example by agreeing yourself to sign off on the deal to revamp Camp Schwab in Henoko that will drastically alter the natural coastline and tide pools there? What do you want, an agrarian society or a developed one of concrete? I would suggest Okinawa is just too small to have both equally. Something has to give.

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I remember about 10 or 12 years ago, when the US was putting pressure on Japan to reduce import tariffs, someone did a study on rice.

They asked a bunch of "house wives" which rice they prefered in a blind taste test. 100% of them saw the superior quality and taste of home-grown, subsedized Japan rice over that swill grown in central California- even though the Japan rice cost three times as much.