Consul General Tajima Hiroshi tours Crary Industries in West Fargo, ND. (Photo: NDTO)
An interesting shift has happened to Japan’s agricultural, forestry and fisheries exports in just a single year. There has been a shift away from surf to turf, and a move away from China and towards everyone else overhauling Japan’s food moves. Overall, exports were up a modest if solid 3.7 percent to 1.51 trillion yen ($9.8 billion). But under the hood, things got a bit nuts. Agricultural exports were up 8.4 percent, but fishery exports were down 7.5 percent as China shunned Japan’s seafood in a diplomatic spat. So exports to China were down 29.1 percent, while shipments to the U.S. were up 17.8 percent, to Taiwan up 11.2 percent and to Europe up 18.5 percent.
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