The major principle which shaped the Designated Zone of the 2013 Taiwan-Japan Fisheries Agreement was the Designated Zone design made by Japan's Okinawa Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations (JF-Okinawa) and Japan Fisheries Agency (JFA). Since the period of Japan's Noda Cabinet to that of Abe Cabinet, JF-Okinawa and JFA had been jointly designing a Designated Zone. The Japan Government then followed JF-Okinawa and JFA's design to negotiate the Designated Zone with Taiwan Government. The Japan Government had JFA to negotiate the border setting of the Designated Zone with Taiwan Government. At the point that JFA and Taiwan Government were in a stalemate, the Japan Government provided policy compromise that partly conformed to JF-Okinawa and JFA's design.