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| Author: | Holloway, N. |
| Title: | Forbidden fruit |
| Journal: | Far Eastern Economic Review
1996 : AUG 8, VOL. 159:32, p. 50-51 |
| Index terms: | TRADE JAPAN USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A Japanese plant pathologist's suicide demonstrates there's often more than meets the eye in US-Japan trade disputes. Akio Tanii was a plant pathologist toiling away quietly at a government research station on the island of Hokkaido, until he co-authored an academic paper which concluded that a disease called fire blight was present in Japanese apple and pear trees. When his paper was presented at a conference in Canada in August 1995, the spotlight fell on his work. New of the research outraged officials at the Agriculture Ministry in Tokyo. |
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