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Over 1000 Japanese Citizens Sue Their Gov't to Keep Japan Out of TPP

posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 18 2015, @06:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the does-anybody-like-this-treaty dept.

"gewg_" writes:

The Japan Times reports:

[1063 plaintiffs, including lawmakers,] filed a lawsuit against the government on [May 15], seeking to halt Japan's involvement in 12-country talks on a Pacific Rim free trade agreement, which they called "unconstitutional".

[...]The lawsuit is led by Masahiko Yamada, 73, a lawyer who served as agriculture minister in 2010 as part of the Democratic Party of Japan government.

"The TPP could violate the Japanese right to get stable food supply, or the right to live, guaranteed by Article 25 of the nation's Constitution," Yamada, who abandoned his party in 2012 over then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's push to join the TPP talks, said [May 14] before the court filing.

The envisaged pact would benefit big corporations but would jeopardize the country's food safety and medical systems, and [would] destroy the domestic farm sector, according to the plaintiffs.

The litigation is another twist in efforts by Japan and the U.S., the top economies involved in the TPP, to expedite talks on the agreement that would cover about 40 percent of the world's commerce.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by K_benzoate on Monday May 18 2015, @07:46PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Monday May 18 2015, @07:46PM (#184757)

    People on the left of the economic political spectrum (including communists) are against the TPP and globalization in general. You're getting your irrational, obsessive, stereotyping backwards. Conservatives (like Obama) and corporate fascists (Republican party) are the ones who want stuff like this.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @07:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @07:52PM (#184760)

    Leftists are only against it because it's tyranny that they aren't responsible for. If they were authoring this, then they'd be supporting it wholeheartedly.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:16PM (#184772)

      Now you're just contradicting yourself. Do "leftists" as you style them oppose the TPP or oppose the people trying to stop it? Which is it, retard?

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:49PM (#184800)

        There's no contradiction.

        Leftists would support the TPP if they wrote it.

        Leftists would not support the TPP if they did not write it.

        Leftists support any tyranny that they control.

        Leftists do not support any tyranny that they do not control.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @10:35PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @10:35PM (#184855)

          Leftists would support the TPP if they wrote it.

          So Obama isn't a leftist? Good to know. But is he still a Muslim?

          • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @11:06PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @11:06PM (#184866)

            Are you asking that for real?

            The Democratic Party is extremely far to the right, by global standards. Maybe they're "leftists" in the US, but that's only because the Republican Party is so bloody far to the right.

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:52PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:52PM (#184803)
        It doesn't matter. Red-blooded patriots like me--good! Lib'ruls bad! Who cares what they believe or vote for? Who cares what their views are or what they say? They are bad no matter what! It's us against them and we're better off not even listening to a word they're saying. FOX News and Rush Limbaugh told me so.