The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which was not familiar with the company, was worried it might be an unregistered manufacturer, and possibly in breach of safety regulations.

对该公司一知半解的农林部部长担心它是个未注册的生产商，可能违反安全条例。

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Japanese households and companies waste about 19m tons of food per year, and of that, about 6m tons is edible, according to an estimate by the Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry.

日本农林水产省的数据显示，日本家庭和企业每年约浪费掉1900万吨的食物，其中大约600万吨是可食用的。

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For the 10th anniversary of the Convention, Cueim and the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies set up a research group, presided over by Gaetano Golinelli, professor emeritus at La Sapienza University of Rome, and coordinated by professor Pier Luigi Petrillo.

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And even some within the deniers cabal the Nokyo, the group of special interest politicians, previously mainly LDP, but also Komeito and DPJ (the norinzoku), and interventionist bureaucrats in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) are beginning to admit facts, if not to embrace the prospect of real reform.

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"We never dreamed we'd overcome the wall around domestic growers, " says Tatsuo Horiuchi, representative director of Dole Japan and the only foreign company official advising the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on farm law revisions.

FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart