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【News】Ex-hikikomori farmer-cum-painter captures harshness and preciousness of nature on canvas Sakurai Kazuya from Kasai-shi, Hyogo Prefecture (March 19, 2016)
Landscape paintings of a 33-year-old farmer-cum-painter in Kasai-shi, Hyogo Prefecture, are drawing attentions for their fresh interpretation of the harshness and the preciousness of the nature that the painter knows from his days as a farmer. The young farmer and landscape painter, Kazuya Sakurai, draws fruits and vegetables by the window and farmland looking through the window on one canvas. He paints out of his imagination using many very small dots. He came up with this style without receiving any formal art education. He once was a shut-in, or hikikomori in Japanese, and isolated himself from any social contact after becoming truant and dropping out of senior high school. However, … Continue reading
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【News】 Norinchukin Bank launches “food & agriculture business” in mid-term plan from 2016 (March 17, 2016)
【News】 Norinchukin Bank launches “food & agriculture business” in mid-term plan from 2016 (March 17, 2016) The Norinchukin Bank revealed on March 16 its three-year business plan starting from the fiscal 2016. The Bank is a national-level financial organization of JA (agricultural cooperative) Bank Group, JF (fishery cooperative) Marine Bank Group and JForest (forest owners cooperative) Group. With a view to developing growth-oriented agriculture, the Bank formulated the three-year plan focusing its new business named “food & agriculture business,” providing integrated supports to both farmers and food-related companies. The bank of cooperatives, Norinchukin Bank, aims to play a key role of a bridge between farmers and corporations through financing, investment, … Continue reading
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[Opinion] Farmers and researchers join hands to revitalize Tohoku (March 14, 2016)
Keiko Nakamura, Director General of JT Biohistory Research Hall Five years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Disaster-hit regions are struggling to restore food and agriculture, the basic forms of life, which were destroyed by earthquake and tsunami. The biggest concern lies over the effects of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Most of the radiation contaminated areas are agricultural fields, forests and mountains. All the people who consume farm items produced in the region, as well as the owners of the lands, want to know the actual conditions of contamination. Radioactive substances absorbed in soil The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Agricultural … Continue reading
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【News】 Asian farmers’ organizations celebrate successful completion of JA Zenchu’s fund-raising campaign for small farmers in Asia (March 16, 2016)
Successful completion of a long-range fund raising campaign named “Fundraising for Coexistence with Asia” was highly appreciated by representatives of farmers’ organizations in seven Asian countries, including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, at a meeting held in Tokyo on March 9-10. The nation-wide campaign has been promoted by JA ZENCHU, an apex body of agricultural cooperative (JA) organizations in Japan since 2005. Donations made mostly by farmers and JAs’ staff members in the country have been invested into a number of micro-projects launched by Asian farmers’ organizations to raise incomes of their member farmers. An amount of the fund donated to those micr0-projects in Asian villages during the past eleven … Continue reading
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【News】 Bread & cake added with “fruit and vegetable lees” enjoys popularity of young females (March 15, 2016)
Some of juice shops have begun to sell new types of bread and cake added with strained lees of fruit and vegetable juices. Doughs of the bread and cake are mixed with the squeezed lees fully appealing “natural flavors.” One obvious selling point of those foods is that they are rich in dietary fiber and they are receiving attention particularly from young females. “EJ JUICE & SOUP” put new goods on sale at its Kojimachi main shop in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on March 1. They are five kinds of bread and green salad added with fruit juice lees strained at the shop. Most customers of these foods are female office workers … Continue reading
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