<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/03/12/tense-times-over-trade/?KEYWORDS=trade">http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/03/12/tense-times-over-trade/?KEYWORDS=trade</a><br><div><br></div><div><div class="articleHeadlineBox headlineType-newswire" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; zoom: 1; float: left; width: 563px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; line-height: 1em; ">Tense Times Over Trade</h1></div><div class="articleHeadline_tools" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; float: right; width: 377px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; "></div><div class="mastertextCenter" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; height: 2306px; "><div class="padding-left-big" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; "><div class="col6wide colOverflowTruncated" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; width: 571px; "><div class="article story" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 11px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div class="articlePage" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><h3 class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.583em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">By Yuka Hayashi</h3><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is racing to announce his government’s decision to join the negotiations to launch the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an emerging regional free-trade agreement. Participation in the U.S.-led trade pact is a hallmark of Mr. Abe’s growth strategy, but he continues to face strong opposition from farmers fearing painful market-opening steps – and many politicians within his own party who rely on their votes.</p><div class="mceTemp" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; clear: both; text-align: left; "><dl class="wp-caption alignleft" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; width: 272px; "><dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00242005.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 1em; text-align: right; ">Screen shot from the Fuji News Newtwork website</dd><dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 1.1em/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: left; ">Hidehisa Otsuji, right, anti -Trans Pacific Partnership politician of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Koya Nishikawa, chairman of the party’s TPP committee, exchanged verbal punches during a discussion over TPP on March 11.</dd></dl></div><div class="insetCol3wide" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; float: left; clear: left; width: 280px; "><div class="insetContent" style="margin-top: 0px; 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background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 6px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/03/27/nodas-cry-for-help/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1em; ">Noda's Cry for 'Help'?</a></li></ul></div></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">Mr. Abe should be worried.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">Just two days before his Liberal Democratic Party is set to deliver a verdict on the trade pact, two key members of the party were so riled up that they had a screaming match in front of TV cameras, a scene that was broadcast prominently on national television Tuesday.<br>Even JRT readers who don’t understand Japanese can get the flavor of<a href="http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00242005.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "> the battle</a>.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">The actors of the very public display of emotion were Hidehisa Otsuji, an LDP member opposing the TPP, and Koya Nishikawa, a senior lawmaker who heads a special party committee on the TPP.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“Any problem?” yelled Mr. Otsuji.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“What do you want?” countered Mr. Nishikawa, who stood up from his seat to face Mr. Otsuji.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“What?” yelled Mr. Otsuji</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“What are you saying?” Mr. Nishikawa yelled back.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">Their faces are only inches apart, and their chests are almost touching.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“What do you mean what?” says Mr. Otsuji.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“Don’t be so bossy,” Mr. Nishikawa says.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“You are the one who’s bossy,” Mr. Otsuji counters.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“You be quiet,” says Mr. Nishikawa.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; display: block; ">“You are the one who’s yelling,” Mr. Otsuji points out.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; 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