Oishinbo: The Japan-America Rice War
美味しんぼ 日米コメ戦争
Synopsis
Oishinbo characters engage in political drama over US rice imports and pesticide concerns.
The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator from California and a nationalistic Japanese politician is further complicated by concerns about the cumulative effect of pesticide use in both American and Japanese agriculture.
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