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Japan's 'sacred' rice farmers brace for Pacific trade deal's death sentence

  • Written by The Conversation
imageNegotiators appear to be giving Japan's rice farmers short shrift.Rice via www.shutterstock.com

In small wet rice fields, or suiden, across Japan, farmers don rubber boots to slosh through the fields and check their plantings. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in tropical Hawaii, negotiators are in the final stages of talks on the Trans-Pacific...

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