Yamashita Kazuhito

Research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies and senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Born in 1955. Started working for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in 1977. Among other posts, served as counselor in the Japanese government’s mission to the European Union and deputy director-general in the Rural Development Bureau. Left MAFF in 2008. Author of Nōkyō kaitai (Dissolve the Agricultural Cooperatives), Nihon no nōgyō o hakai shita no wa dare ka (Who Destroyed Japanese Agriculture?), and other works.

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