Useful links to documents regarding the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Japan:

(1) The interactive map entitled ”EU-Japan trade in your town”, ” which is a very neat feature to check out trade with Japan for each of the 27 member states and where you see all the companies exporting to Japan across the Union.  More details can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/eu-japan-economic-partnership-agreement/eu-japan-in-your-town/

(2) The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is the first one which contains a dedicated chapter for SMEs, but there is also a specific section on the website for SMEs and Japan, which is a very good step in the right direction to break the agreement down to SMEs: http://madb.europa.eu/madb/eu_japan_economic_partnership_agreement.htm

(3) Relevant factsheets about the agreement: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1697. It is subdivided into specific areas of interest, such as: public procurement, food safety and SPS, Agriculture, regulatory cooperation and will be useful to you if you want to dig deeper into a specific area of interest.

(4) The original text of the agreement can be accessed here: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1684

(5)  Concrete stories of exporters that have benefitted from other EU agreements are published here: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/trade-policy-and-you/in-focus/exporters-stories/#p=#filter-partners-Japan&c=*