Inside A Wagyu Beef Processing Plant, Cattle Farm And Beef Restaurant As Pricey Wagyu Steaks Are Abe's Answer to Cheap Imports [Getty Images]

Workers cut beef slabs at a meat processing facility operated by Agris-One Co., a unit of Meat Companion Co., in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Wagyu farmers are betting that rising wealth in Asia will expand the market for premium beef and quadruple annual exports to 25 billion yen ($240 million) by 2020. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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