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Japanese market
Exports to Japan and Japan–Vietnam agricultural relations
Japanese market– category –
Exports to Japan and Japan–Vietnam agricultural relations
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The ENT That Had Held Back 300 Aeon Stores Is Lifted in October; How Will Shelf Space Grow?
Under Decree 342, the ENT for CPTPP companies is exempted on October 18. We read what it means for 300 Aeon stores and FamilyMart's 300 Hanoi stores to start moving, from the standpoint of Japanese food makers' distribution flow and procedures. -
Squid migration falls below last year across the whole Sea of Japan: will Vietnamese squid and octopus come in instead?
Domestic squid is not being landed. The long-term fishing forecast for Japanese common squid in the Sea of Japan, released by the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency on July 31, 2026, put the August-to-December migration volume as "below the previous year across the whole Sea of Japan." All four sea areas—northern and central Hokkaido, southern Hokkaido and Tsugaru, the northern Honshu Sea of Japan, and the western Sea of Japan—are below the previous year... -
Kansai Electric runs a JCM study on 100,000 hectares of Vietnamese coconut; what buyers look at is the register
Vinh Long province, Vietnam, received a carbon-credit research proposal from Japanese companies covering about 100,000 hectares of coconut. The meeting was on September 17, 2026, and those presenting were Jizoku Inc. and Kansai Electric Power. The mechanism is the Japan–Vietnam Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), and the pillars of the research are the appropriate use of fertilizer and turning by-products into bio... -
Hokkaido scallops seen at 298,000 tonnes: how to source in a year with few large ones
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported on September 22, 2026 that production in Hokkaido, Japan's largest scallop-producing region, is expected to come in at just 298,200 tonnes this season. That is 15% below the previous year, and the first time in nine years it has fallen below 300,000 tonnes. What is being landed in the Sea of Okhotsk, now in its main fishing season, is "5S... -
The Vietnamese Bau May cooperative that splits pepper into six forms: what can Japanese raw-material sourcing use?
On September 24, 2026, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan featured the pepper-growing area of Hoa Hiep village, Ho Chi Minh City. The protagonist is the "Bau May Agriculture, Trade and Tourism Cooperative" (Hop tac xa Nong nghiep - Thuong mai - Du lich Bau May), which stopped shipping black pepper as raw material in sacks and, mil... -
An orchard that stopped pesticides 40 days before harvest: what did Japanese buyers go to see?
In the lychee-growing area of Thanh Ha in Haiphong, northern Vietnam, producers have agreed to stop all chemical pesticides 40 days before harvest, the local agriculture-specialist paper Nong nghiep va Moi truong reported in a piece dated September 24, 2026. The first part of the same series (dated September 23) said that from 300 trees, about one tonne... -
There are 384 trade agreements in force worldwide; the tariff on Vietnamese seafood to Japan differs by agreement
An article published by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on the morning of September 25, 2026 reported that, prompted by US tariff measures, countries are piling up bilateral and regional trade agreements, and that seafood tariff preferences are splitting finely by individual agreement. The figure placed at its center is "384." Start... -
Japan's surimi-product exports up 9% by volume; shipments to Vietnam rise 2.2-fold but to just 21 tonnes
According to Ministry of Finance trade statistics, surimi products such as kamaboko exported from Japan in January–July 2026 totaled 6,186 tonnes. That is up 9.5% from 5,650 tonnes in the same period a year earlier. The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported this on September 25 as content Minato Shimbun reported citing Ministry of Finance data... -
Seafood up 9%; households' real seafood spending down 6%, splitting the shelf by item
A short article released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on September 25, 2026 reports that household spending is not keeping up with rising seafood prices in Japan. The "9%" and "6%" in the headline are figures that serve directly as negotiating material for the Japanese side sourcing seafood raw materials from Vietnam. How... -
Vietnam's whelk farming reaches 6,200 tonnes a year: can it be used for Japan's shellfish sourcing?
On September 24, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist outlet tepbac summarized how the farming of oc huong (Babylonia areolata) reached the order of 6,000 tonnes a year over 25 years (by author Kim Tien). A sea snail that had relied on wild harvesting became a subject that can be farmed in a planned way through artificial seed production...
