The Iowa Hog Lift was a 1960 delivery of pigs to Japan by the agriculture sector in the U.S. State of Iowa following significant damage resulting from typhoons in the Yamanashi Prefecture. It is widely accepted that the hog lift was largely responsible for the development of the sister-state relationship between Iowa and Yamanashi and marked the beginning of currently strong relations in agriculture between Japan and the United States.
The Iowa Hog Lift was a 1960 delivery of pigs to Japan by the agriculture sector in the U.S. State of Iowa following significant damage resulting from typhoons in the Yamanashi Prefecture. It is widely accepted that the hog lift was largely responsible for the development of the sister-state relationship between Iowa and Yamanashi and marked the beginning of currently strong relations in agriculture between Japan and the United States.
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