1. Japan's Food Import and Export Trends
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Japan's food self-sufficiency rate reached 73% in 1965, but, based on the current supply, it maintains self-sufficiency rate of 40% in 2005.
Just recently, Japanese food exports are reducing and imports of that are growing.
2. An aging society and food consumption
- In 2025, Demand of fresh products decrea
food and share each other’s food culture. On the other hand, there are detailed differences in eating habits exist among three countries as the geographical and resources differences. Also, the differences of economic conditions make the gap more evident. Therefore, with considering such a lot of conditions, we are going to investigate about the food consumption tendency of three countries.
(2) Characteristics of Consumption in Korea
1) Analysis of decision factor on rice consumption.
Several characteristics influence on the consumption of Rice and korean food which are household income, housewife's time-cost, consumer's age, professional education and place of residence. Income elasticity of consuming Rice in 1982 was 0.24 but it declined to 0.16 in 2002 and this value is
So, we need to identify the source of this phenomenon by using age consumption analysis. Meanings of age consumption analysis are like these
First, by comparing the age of rice consumption expenditures we can recognize generational differences in favor of rice.
Second, we may get how each generation response to generational changes by tracking the long-term changes in rice consumption.
almost all the markets because generally, domestic tobacco markets have been protected by government by operating a national tobacco company. However, the rapid flow of globalization and pressure to open trade borders by WTO are changing the industry’s mechanisms into becoming more global and competitive. The graph below shows that the world’s tobacco consumption volume and regional volume.