[CTC] Japanese Farmers Run Anti-TPP Ad in the Washington Post

[Arthur Stamoulis]

See ad attached (thanks, Kate Titus!)...

Arthur Stamoulis
Citizens Trade Campaign
(202) 494-8826



JA to run ad in U.S. papers opposing Japan's entry to TPP
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120424p2g00m0bu053000c.html 
  TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's national farming lobby said Monday it will  
publish in Tuesday's edition of The Washington Post a public statement  
opposing Japan joining a trans-Pacific free trade bloc.
The advertisement by the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives,  
known as JA-Zenchu, will call on U.S. citizens to raise voices against  
creating a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade area as the union  
believes it would worsen employment conditions and widen economic  
disparities.
The union will also run the ad the same day in a newspaper in Detroit,  
home of the U.S. auto industry which is also opposed to Japan's  
joining the TPP negotiations.
The union hopes the move, which comes ahead of the summit meeting of  
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and U.S. President Barack Obama  
in Washington on April 30, would raise public awareness in the United  
States that there is strong opposition to the envisaged trade deal in  
Japan.
Akira Banzai, who heads the union, criticized the Japanese government  
for "falling forward" in seeking to join the TPP negotiations, saying  
the national debate and information disclosed by the government on the  
issue have been insufficient.

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