抄録
The focus of this paper is the study of reorganization of the Japanese food processing industry and the processed foods market as it relates to the current increase in structural changes under the WTO system. There are three points under study in this paper. The first is a hollowing out of Japanese food processing industries by the increase in investment dollars being drawn overseas into China and East Asia by the growth of multinationals. The second is the relation between the food goods producers and food goods distributors, where-by the distribution chain members hold the buying-power, obtained through vertical integration. The third is the situation where-in, through the CAC international-harmonization efforts, the governments of the various countries are swayed towards accommodating the interests of the agribusiness sector in international standards regulation mitigation. However, at the same time, there is also a situation in which international standards are tightening to maintain a certain level of safety and quality among such value added goods. Upon such does the Japanese food processing industry and processed foods market reorganization depend.
