People's Forum 2001, Japan

Japan's Policy Review Series ... English Version

Policy Review No.1 "Overview of Japan's Agriculutture and Agriculutural Pocicies"

by Kazuoki Ono, Peoples'Forum 2001,Japan ,1998

Contents： Ch.1 Current Situation Regarding Japanese Agriculture ( 1 Dissolution of the Production Base 2 Decline in Self-Supporting Capacity ) Ch.2 How and Why did this happen? ( 1 The Cold War and hte US Food Strategy 2 Economic Groth and Bacic Agricultural Law 3 Globalization and Japanese Agriculture ) Ch.3 Agricultural Modernization and Globalization ( 1 Part-Timing and Aging 2 Massive Flow of Imported Grains 3 Loss of Self-Sufficiency 4 Surplus and Shortage 5 Internal and External Environmental Destruction ) Ch.4 Agricultural Policy and Food System Under Reorganization ( 1 Agricultral Policy of the World Trade Organization(WTO) 2 Contract Cultivation by Food Corporations )

Policy Review No.２"Overview of Japan's Fiscal Policy and Its Effects on Global Warming" by Naoyuki Hata (People's Forum 2001, Japan: ( Global Warming Research Group ) 27 Oct. 1998

Contents：<Summary> Ch.1 Emission levels of greenhouse gases and energy supply and demand in Japan ( 1 Emission of greenhouse gases 2 Energy Supply situation ) Ch.2 Energy related taxes ( 1 Taxation of Petroleum and energy 2 Taxation of electric power 3 Automobile taxes ) Ch.3 Fiancial policies that promote fossil fuel consumption ( 1 Financial energy and electric power 2 Financing public works ) Ch.4 Other Iinstitutional issues ( 1 Energy-related institution 2 Long-term plans for public works ) ch.5 Outline proposal for Fiscal Reform ( 1 Fiscal policy reform proposal to arrest global warming 2 Proposal for a better fiscal policy )