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Japan ‘underestimates’ farm product impacts from trade deals
TOKYO, Jan. 17 — The Japanese government has expanded estimates of the impact on agricultural products from recently-sealed free trade agreements with the EU and with 10 Pacific Rim countries, from 176 billion yen to 179 billion yen. The estimates were corrected due to an error in the calculations of dairy products, the agriculture ministry said on Jan. 16, about a month after announcing the estimates. The agriculture ministry explained it had traced the error, while explaining the estimates at a series of meeting with local government officials. The Japan-EU trade deal is now likely to impact by between 39.7 billion and 68.6 billion yen, while the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) … Continue reading
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Austrian filmmaker to shoot a film in Japan to tackle food waste
TOKYO, Jan. 7 – David Gross, an Austrian filmmaker and activist, will start shooting a film “Mottainai Kitchen” in Japan this year as part of his longtime efforts in raising awareness for food waste. In the movie, Gross himself will travel around Japan in a kitchen car which runs on waste oil and prepare creative meals from foods discarded at farms and households. He plans to release the film in 2019, a year before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, to draw global attention to the concept of mottainai, a Japanese term meaning having respect for resources and not wasting them. Gross has been suggesting ways to tackle the problem … Continue reading
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【Booklet】Beginning of Cooperatives ＜Village community brought up pioneers＞(April 4, 2015)
Mutual aid illuminating feet As economic globalization progresses, mutual assistance based on the spirit of cooperation is indispensable for maintaining and developing vulnerable communities. From the Edo period when the cooperative’s sprouts were visible to the present age, when society was in turmoil, cooperatives became “resilience” and demonstrated their power. We light the footsteps of pioneers of Japanese cooperatives. In Asahi City, Chiba Prefecture, there is a museum of Yugaku Ohara who launched the “Senzokabukumiai (ancestral share association)”, which can be said to be the prototype of nogyokyodokumiai (agricultural cooperatives). In Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, there is a museum of Sontoku Ninomiya who created the “Hotoku thought” by adding “Sincerity” … Continue reading
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【Booklet】Beginning of Cooperatives ＜Yugaku Ohara ①＞ Rebuilding the village (April 11, 2015)
Humanity guidance based on “Seigaku (Chinese Natural Science)” At the end of Edo period of 1830s (Tempo year), Yugaku Ohara (1797-1858) , who worked hard as rural leaders for the reconstruction of the village exhausted by famine and others, started its activities in Nagabe village, Shimofusa country (Asahi City, Chiba Prefecture). Born in the house of samurai of the Owari country (Aichi Prefecture), since being insulated from his father at the age of 18, he arrived at Boso area after wandering Kyoto, Osaka, Shinshu, and Edo. Meanwhile, he studied Confucianism, Divination lore, Buddhism, and Agricultural techniques. At that time the domestic economy was facing a crisis. The Shogunate & clan system began … Continue reading
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【Booklet】Beginning of Cooperatives ＜Yugaku Ohara ②＞ Collaborative purchase business(April 18, 2015)
Protect villagers’ lives by joining of the all households Senzokabukumiai, which was credit cooperatives, began new business which was revolutionary during feudal age. All the villagers of Nagabe village (Asahi-shi, Chiba prefecture) joined to create a consumer association, and it began a joint purchase business. Purchased goods included items necessary for agriculture such as agricultural tools, fertilizers and seeds, and daily necessities such as foods, sardines, udon(noodle), tea, clothes such as cotton, cloths, dishes, tables, tea bowls, combs, ornament hairpin. Not only to buy good things cheaply. There was a philosophy policy of “not using luxuries”. It can also be viewed as a prototype of modern comprehensive nogyokyodokumiai (agricultural cooperatives) … Continue reading
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