American president, Barack Obama came to Japan as a state guest. He visited noted place in Tokyo and enjoyed conversation with Japanese prime minister, Shinzou Abe. At private, the two of leader of each country, are very good friend, and have awesome relationship. At a press conference by them during Obama in Japan, they call each other in last name. Not Mr. Obama or Mr. Abe, Obama called Abe as Shinzou, and Abe called Obama as Barack.
But even there are good relationship between them as private, still we can't see a bit nice relationship sign between two country. They have several problem, which is bothered them. The most big problem is TPP negotiation.
So what is the TPP? TPP is abbreviated of "Trans-Pacific Strategic Economy Partnership Agreement". As you can know from this, TPP expect, several countries' (which is close to Trans-Pacific) economy will be more liberalization. TPP was established in 2005, and first, there were just 4 countries belonged there, but now, there are 9 countries belonging, and they are increasing their power now. America which is one of the country became a member of TPP tried to negotiate to Japan to join TPP since several years ago. But Japan was declining.
The reason that Japan decline to join TPP is Japanese will not able to feed it self. I said TPP is tring to be liberalization of economy. But many things support economy, and trade is the most profitable thing. America is tring to negotiate with Japan to join TPP, because they want to sell a lot of product sach a food, car, a precision instrument. If Japan join TPP, then they need to pay duty, so America can make a profit. It seems Japan loss a profit, but it is not. Because American product is so cheep, and in supermarket, compare price between American rice and Japanese rice, then American rice is cheeper than Japanese one, so both of country will make a profit.
But many farmer will get angry to hear Japan want to join TPP. If you want to buy a rice, which will you buy? Cheep rice or expensive rice. Both of rice is safe to the health. I will absolutely buy cheep one. As I said before, American rice will be cheeper then Japanese one, so even Japanese farmer make rice hard, but people will buy American (cheep) rice, so they can't make a profit.
I just took example of rice, but there are many genre of farm bussiness, so all of them will loss a profit, if Japan join TPP.
Successive prime minister of Japan cared about them (farmer), so they continued to decline to join it, but prime minister Abe have positive think to TPP negotiate.
So in last week, there were conversation between Abe and Obama, but negotiate stoped in final stage.
Abe said he is going to continue to have conversation or negotiate with Obama, and never give up for this big problem.
This time, when Obama visited to Japan, Abe gave him many awesome service. At first day, Abe invited Obama to highest rank Sushi store and enjoied Japanese own traditional fish. Obama very like it, and their private relationship was deepened. Next day Obama visited to Japan Imperial Palace, and had held a big dinner party with Japanese emperor. Also he visited Japanese famous chemical museum. He refered that Japanese chemical skill is awesome.
This time, unfortunately, negotiate wasn't succeed, even though, both countries' has big trust and good impression to each country.
It was an awesome 3 days!!