U.S.-Japan trade talks will bring peace of mind to farmers, automakers: Motegi

Surely, Mr Motegi means that trade talks will bring more choice to the Japanese people?

Peace of mind is not really the goal of talking about trade, is it...

 The US needs to do a better job of selling their their products.

Yeah, Apple does a pathetic job of selling iPhones. if the US has a problem "selling their products," it's due to market access, not effort. When the iphone first came out, Steve Jobs flew to Japan to meet directly with executives at DoCoMo, Japan's No. 1 carrier. But they rejected his request to offer the iPhone in Japan. Softbank, then a smaller upstarted founded by a US-educated Korean, was the only one willing to accept the world's most popular handset.

You can not force Japanese to buy US cars and rice. The US needs to do a better job of selling their their products.

Nobody is forcing anybody. Free trade leaves everybody to their own choice. Too many commentators, both foreign and Japanese, claim to speak for just over 125,000,000 people.

You can not force Japanese to buy US cars and rice. The US needs to do a better job of selling their their products.

It must be hard for this guy to keep a straight face given the hypocrisy of Japan's trade policies. Don't worry Japanese farmers: We will keep our import tariffs high. Don't worry Japanese automakers: We will ensure the Americans keep their import tariffs low.

In the meantime, Japanese taxpayers will buy American corn and wheat that will be donated to developing countries.

 I saw the real sufferings of the Japanese farmers & many cars factories closed. 

The causes have nothing to do with Trump, as domestic car sales have been on a decline for several years already. and the effects of his trade policies in farm products will take time to be felt. If Japanese farmers are suffering, it's due to their own demographics, especially so many young Japanese are keen to flee the rural communities, leaving a shrinking number of elderly to tend the crops.

But, hey, blaming foreigners for your own problems gives one a warm and fuzzy feeling, so why not, ne.

I truly hope that things will be as U said, Mr Motegi because my travels to local communities in Japan, I saw the real sufferings of the Japanese farmers & many cars factories closed. We Japanese cannot stand any more sweet talks of the trump's administration. That was just 3 weeks ago. After 1945, we cannot be always giving way to U.S.A. We have to feed correct hard working people in Japan. Lets not let real honest people in Japan suffer any more.