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The International Congress Of Scientists On The Human Environment, Kyoto, Japan, November 17-26, 1975 - A Report, Forest Sterns

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The International Congress of Scientists on Human Environment was convened under the combined auspices of the Science Council of Japan; the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Man and the Biosphere (MAB), the Scientists' Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the Special Committee on the Environment of the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The 519 participants in the Congress included 95 representing 27 countries in addition to Japan. The Congress was organized by General Secretary, Prof. Y. Fukushima for the Science Council of Japan, an elected group representing 200,000 scientists. The Congress built upon the 1970 Tokyo Symposium on …

Meat Marketing : The L.I.P.C. And Japan's Meat Import Controls, G C. George

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

hardly a week passes without some reference to Japan's Livestock Industry Promotion Corperation (L.I.P.C.), and its effect on Australian meat exporters.

This article describes some of the functions of the L.I.P.C., and attempts to provide some insights into the Japanese meat market. The author, Gil George, recently returned from Japan after completing a Master's degree in Economics.