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Hello to International Affairs First because the UK has in principle agreed a trade deal with Japan. Now it's been in the making for a little while and one of the

hold-ups was over the treatment of exports of Stilton cheese.

Yes, the blue cheese, you know the one.

So to find out a bit more about Japan's relationship

with Stilton cheese, let's speak to Manami Kawasaki.

Hello, Manami.

Hi.

Good to speak to you.

So you normally run the Hyper Japan festival in the UK every year, which is a big celebration

of Japanese culture in the UK but you're

actually in Tokyo now yeah I am in Tokyo now but normally I'm in London and

when you when you turned on the news today in Tokyo was it wall to wall coverage of the new trade deal with the UK?

Yeah, I just saw the news and I was quite happy about it.

Was it big news or kind of like further down the news bulletin like

towards the end? I think it is a big news. Because you're an expert in a

cultural exchange of things between the UK and Japan. I wanted to ask you about the cheese thing.

Cheese is like Stilton cheese, which is like the blue cheese. Is that popular in

Japan? Is that going to become more popular?

Cheese in Japan are mainly the processes and Japanese people are not as familiar with

British. I'm sure sure some Japanese people will love certain cheese. You know you

can you can get these cheese in nice supermarkets so department store but they are very expensive so they are not for

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