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1 in GDP (gross domestic product)... it was booming,” he told AFP at Kameda’s headquarters, in Japan’s rice heartland of Niigata. But at some point “Japan thought ‘we have everything now ...

‘Forty years ago I came to Japan because it was close to number one in GDP... it was booming,’ the biotech scientist told AFP ...

it was booming,” the biotech scientist told AFP at Kameda’s headquarters in Japan’s rice heartland of Niigata. But, Juneja says, at some point: “Japan thought ‘we have everything now’.

it was booming," the biotech scientist told AFP at Kameda's headquarters in Japan's rice heartland of Niigata. But at some point "Japan thought 'we have everything now'. And I think that the ...