“ Japan now boasts the world’s lowest average level of
tariffs on industrial products. Yet it still maintains some of the highest
agricultural tariffs in the world, and in services – particularly in financial
services – regulations often pose a challenge to doing business for foreign and
Japanese companies alike”
Source: Removing barriers to trade , investment and business
By Glen . S. Fukushima
East Asia Forum Quarterly,
July – September, 2012. Vol 4.
No. 3, page 11