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Originally Posted by hennaz
I find it quite ironic that Japan would send that many rice to the Phillipines to be honest, because most of the food Japan's poulation eats is imported, because they simply cannot produce enough food to feed everybody.  They cannot really afford to export huge amounts of food they produce all the time, otherwise they would have to import masses of food from abroad. |
But you are looking at "food" as a whole entity.... Rice is a different story, they have an overstock of white rice. Having a lot of rice doesn't mean you don't have to import food from other countries. Its not like the country is poor that they can only afford to eat rice