SAKUYAMA Takumi    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Agriculture    Position   Professor
Type	Other Special Instructions about Practical Experience
Period	2017/02/12
Item	Citation of comment ("Abe, Trump take baby steps on trade", The Japan Times)
Details	Takumi Sakuyama, a former TPP negotiator for the Japanese government who is now an associate professor of agriculture at Tokyo's Meiji University, said it is "risky" but "inevitable" for the Abe administration to respond to a U.S. request to start negotiations on a bilateral trade deal.