Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
Date of Graduation
5-2012
College
Interdisciplinary Programs
Major 1
Asian Studies - Japan
Minor
Japanese
First Advisor
Cary Nailling
Second Advisor
Noriko Horiguchi
Recommended Citation
Watson, Eliot Francis, "The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japanese Politics" (2012). Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/1549
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Comments
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is a Free Trade Agreement in negotiations between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and Japan. If negotiations succeed, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will be the largest free trade area in the world, dwarfing the EU. This paper examine's Japan's politically controversial decision to enter negotiations, as the agreement would hurt Japan's agricultural communities which have a disproportionately loud voice in Japanese Politics.