• From Bio Journal - December 2002
  Trend: Commercialisation of GM wheat?
  GM contamination in organic soy products in factory
  MAFF's new GM feed safety law
  Unapproved cultivation of GE corn at Tsukuba University
  Biotechnology Strategy Council issues interim report
  Disagreement over handling of deceased fetuses at MLHW
  MEXT moves towards approval of research on human ES cells
  
  
• From Bio Journal - November 2002
  Does Agrobacterium infect animal cells?
  Shinshu University submits gene therapy plan to MHLW
  Plan to use human ES cells made public
  Monsanto's Bt cotton approved in Japan
  Preparing domestic laws in order to ratify Cartagena Protocol
  GMO: Current status of GM crop R&D in Japan's local regions
  
  
• From Bio Journal - October 2002
  GM soy detected in organic food
  NIAS develops a new GM rice variety
  Development of a GM apple
  Additional medical facility to participate in human ES cell program
  
  
• From Bio Journal - September 2002
  First field trials for GM animal applied for
  320,000 signatures demand R&D halt of GM rice
  Decision deferred again on Shinshu Univ. human ES cell plan
  MHLW interim report on policy on science and technology
  Food labelling: Report to include both integration and status quo
  
  
• From Bio Journal - August 2002
  Monsanto's GM cotton deferred
  GM contamination in non-GM food
  Consumers dissatisfied with GM food labelling regulations
  Food Labelling Conference goes for full legal integration
  MHLW completes clinical research guidelines on xenotransplantation
  Abnormalities continue with somatic cell cloned cattle
  
  
• From Bio Journal - July 2002
  No settlement on labeling issue in Codex Committee meeting
  Monsanto Japan sells herbicide business
  Japan Tobacco Inc. pulls out of Orynova
  De facto approval of import of unapproved GM crops by MAFF
  MAFF R&D project on "Regeneration of Food and Agriculture"
  MAFF: Traceability to begin with beef in 2003?
  National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES) gives public presentation
  
  
• From Bio Journal - June 2002
  Honda Motor Co., Ltd. joins with Nagoya University to Develop a Non-Lodging, High-Yield Rice
  DuPont's Next: High-Isoflavone Soy
  Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Creates a Mountain of Problems with its Approval of the "Right to Know Your Roots"
  
  
• From Bio Journal - May 2002
  A New Problem Discovered in GM Soy
  GM Potato Labeling with the USA in Mind
  
  
• From Bio Journal - April 2002
  Towards Hothouse Experiments Using MAT Vectors
  Mitsui Chemicals Initiates Commercial Sales of Rice Seed
  
  
• From Bio Journal - March 2002
  GM pigs and the second generation of GM crops
  Genome sequencing of rice to be completed by year end
  MAFF establishes research centre to study rice genome use
  Unapproved GM papaya discovered
  6 Ministries work for ratification of Cartagena Biosafety Protocol
  Strategy on intellectual property, life patent issue begins
  
  
• From Bio Journal - February 2002
  3 more approvals for GM food, food additives
  Life Ethics Committee starts discussion on human-embryo research
  
  
• From Bio Journal - January 2002
  Japanese Government Establishes a Biotechnology Strategy HQ
  Increasing national budget for rice genome research
  
  
• From Bio Journal - December 2001
  GM Seed Contamination Discovered in Japan
  MHLW Starts GMO Tests on Animals
  
  
• From Bio Journal - November 2001
  Towards GM Potato Labelling
  Suntory Ltd. Withdraws GM Carnation in Japan
  
  
• From Bio Journal - October 2001
  Towards approval of GM corn StarLink in Japan
  Rush for approval of NewLeaf Plus Potato and RoundUp Ready Canola "RT200"
  
  
• From Bio Journal - September 2001
  GM Rice - The Main Market will be Asia
  Monsanto's preferred GM rice option is Koshihikari?
  
  

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