Top Biz Leader Wants Japan to Join TPP Talks by May

Tokyo, Jan. 22 (Jiji Press)--Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura said Tuesday that Japan should join Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks by May. 

If substantive TPP negotiations, now among 11 countries including the United States, are supposed to end in October, Japan has to join the talks in May at the latest, Yonekura told reporters after a meeting between senior officials of the business group known as Keidanren and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.