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Tochigi works to increase dairy consumption
TOCHIGI, Aug. 18 — The government of Tochigi Prefecture has made August the month to campaign for increased consumption of Tochigi-made milk and dairy products among its residents. Every Friday in August, around 30 officials of the prefectural government’s livestock production promotion division which leads the campaign wear a Holstein pattern shirt to work. They also decorate their laptops with Holstein pattern stickers and send out messages in various places to encourage people to drink milk. Tochigi is Japan’s No. 2 milk producing region after Hokkaido. The Tochigi government launched the campaign to raise people’s awareness of the dairy industry during summer when consumption of milk tends to decline. They … Continue reading
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War witnesses sit in ripe rice fields
KOCHI, Aug. 16 – In Maehama, Nankoku City, Kochi Prefecture, there still are reinforced concrete bomb shelters, called entaigo in Japanese, built in wartime to protect battle plains. The gray ferroconcrete structures were sitting in green ripe rice fields. There are seven entaigo remaining in this area, and the biggest one, the No.4 Entaigo, measures 44 meters in width, 23 meters in depth, and 8.5 meters in height. The dome-shaped structure built to house a two-engine large-sized plane is still partially covered with camouflage soil and grasses. After the war, local farmers started using it to keep agricultural machinery and as a place to work in winter. Shinji Fujimoto is … Continue reading
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Strong high-quality “shamisen” strings developed: NARO and Japanese silken threads maker
SHIGA, Aug. 6 – Japan’s National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) and Marusan Hashimoto Co. (Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture), a Japanese silken thread manufacturer, announced on August 5 a successful joint development of new highly-durable strings for shamisen, a traditional Japanese instrument similar to a banjo. The newly-developed strings feature silken threads from cocoons of a new silkworm strain “Kyomei,” a strain known for producing high-strength silken threads. Instrument strings made from silk produce beautiful sounds and resonate well. However, they are weaker and easier to break than resin strings, which are more commonly used. NARO and the thread maker plan to expand the use of silk strings to … Continue reading
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A document listing rice prices since 1781 presented to agricultural coop in Ibaraki
IBARAKI, Aug. 5 — A document showing how much a 60-kilogram sack of rice cost every year between 1781 — the start of the Tenmei era in the Edo period — and 1979 was presented to a training center in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, operated by JA group Ibaraki, a group of agricultural cooperatives in the prefecture. The Ibaraki prefectural federation of cooks in Mito donated the rice price list, which will be displayed at the training facility to be used in food and agriculture education. The document is a piece of paper roughly 83 centimeter wide and 45 cm high, with rice prices written in chronological order in brush letters … Continue reading
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Rice paddy art created in Saitama to support revitalization of quake-hit Noto region
SAITAMA, July 22 — Now is the best time to see the rice paddy art in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture, which is created to support Noto Peninsula hit by a major earthquake in January. The display, made by planting rice seedlings of different colors on a 2.8-hectare field, depicts the Kiriko Festival, traditional summer festivals in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture featuring large lanterns and portable shrines. Organizers of the rice field art asked members of Noto High School’s calligraphy club to write kanji characters including fukko kigan, meaning “prayer for restoration,” used in designing the art. The entire artwork can be viewed from a 50-meter-high observation platform located next … Continue reading
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