But it reflects a growing fragmentation of japan 's political landscape in advance of upper-house elections in july .
但是这反映出即将在6月份举行的众议院选举之前日本正在分裂的政治景象。
The agreement does allow signatories to delay reducing tariffs on products through negotiations but countries that wanted to do so were supposed to make the request months in advance of the january 1 2010 implementation date .