<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">See ad attached (thanks, Kate Titus!)...<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Arthur Stamoulis</div><div>Citizens Trade Campaign</div><div>(202) 494-8826</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 18px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 1.2pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 24px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; ">JA to run ad in U.S. papers opposing Japan's entry to TPP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 18px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 1.2pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 24px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120424p2g00m0bu053000c.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120424p2g00m0bu053000c.html</a> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 18px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 18px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 18px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 18px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Meiryo, sans-serif; color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; 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