11.   Farmers have often staged violent protests against rice imports in the past.

12.   Farmers have often staged violent protests in the past, demanding an end to rice imports and more government subsidies to shore up the falling domestic rice prices.

13.   Farmers have staged violent protests to stop rice imports, saying their livelihoods were threatened.

14.   He said the rice imports are necessary because the Philippines normally suffers lean months during the third quarter, the height of the Philippine typhoon season.

15.   In addition, Japan has opened its market for rice imports under a commitment to the World Trade Organisation.

16.   In global trade talks on free trade, Japan has agreed to accept further rice imports.

17.   Indonesia will have difficulty paying for this amount of rice imports.

18.   Japan decided Thursday to begin imposing high tariffs on rice imports starting in April of next year, a government official said.

19.   Nakagawa, however, insisted that the decision to limit rice imports reflects the demands of consumers, who tend to buy Japanese rice over imported rice.

20.   The agreement only allows Bulog to keep its monopoly over rice imports.