Japan’s Drying Rice Paddies Are Now a National Security Threat

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Title: Japan’s Drying Rice Paddies Are Now a National Security Threat Originally reported on news.bloomberglaw.com by Isabel Reynolds,Grace Huang

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Russian missiles pounding Ukraine have spooked Japan into boosting defense spending. Now, with tensions rising over the Taiwan Strait, calls are growing to address another security threat: shriveling rice paddies.

For decades, Japanese consumers have been eating less rice and fish in favor of more bread, meat and edible oil, leading the country’s calorie-based food self-sufficiency ratio to slump to 37% in 2020 from 73% in 1965 — the lowest among major economies. Toshiyuki Ito, retired vice admiral for Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force, said the government’s abandonment of rice paddies and other agricultural land is leaving the country more vulnerable than ever.

“They don’t do anything for national security,” Ito, now a professor at Kanazawa Institute of …

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