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【Booklet】Trace the origin of cooperative in JAPAN （Jan 1, 2015） ＜Mr. Yuichiro Nakagawa, Professor of Meiji University＞ Life defense and social contribution Anglo-Japanese comparison Top priority to trust with the local community
When considering the headwaters of the cooperative, it is difficult to compare Japan and Europe, especially Japan and UK. Because the era background is totally different. The Industrial Revolution, which began in around 1760 in UK, has promoted economic and social change. As a result, any farmers or any urban workers had to “work and live” as “wage workers”. Progress of the industrial revolution began to cause the wage problems and unemployment problem.Therefore workers established cooperatives to ensure the daily necessities such as groceries, and began the activities to protect their own life spontaneously. However, these cooperatives for “life-defense” could not produce network since they were spontaneous, ended in “isolated experiments”. … Continue reading
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【News】 Re-employed veteran workers support agricultural newcomers: JA Saku-Asama (July 18, 2016)
A farmer-support team of Saku-Asama Agricultural Cooperative (JA) in Nagano prefecture has achieved remarkable results in helping agricultural newcomers to settle in the JA’s territory. Members of the support team, veteran staff members who have been re-employed after retiring on reaching retirement age from the JA, maintain “face-to-face interactions” with member farmers including new entrants in farming. They work to support members’ farm managements by providing member farmers with advices based on their own experiences and local knowledge. The functions played by the three-member team are well working especially to support agricultural newcomers. The team members provide on-farm supports to the newcomers with information useful for settlement in a rural … Continue reading
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【News】 Kumamoto’s farmer wins seat at proportional representation section of Upper House election as representative of farmers and JA group (July 11, 2016)
Shinya Fujiki, 49, a candidate of the ruling party LDP (Liberal Democratic Party), won a seat in proportional representation segment of the Upper House election on July 10. He was recommended by a political wing of agricultural cooperative’s (JA’s) organizations named as the National Association of Farmers’ Agricultural Policy Movement Organizations or “Zenkoku-Noseikyo.” Farmers have been increasingly anxious about problems to be faced in coming years. And worries about radical reform of farm policies are widely prevailing among farmers at rural communities in the country. During an election campaign, LDP candidate Fujiki asserted his own view on the importance of reflecting opinions of farmers and their JAs into national farm … Continue reading
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【News】 Kasumi Ishikawa visits ZEN-NOH, commits to go all out in Rio to win gold and 12 tons of rice (July 6, 2016)
Kasumi Ishikawa, a professional table tennis player and a member of the table tennis club of National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (ZEN-NOH), made a visit at the ZEN-NOH office in Otemachi, Tokyo, on July 5 to express her firm commitment to win medals at the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, starting on August 5. Speaking in front of 100 ZEN-NOH workers and officers, she said, “Rice is the source of power for me.” Masanobu Yoshinaga, senior executive vice president of ZEN-NOH, presented her a Japanese good luck flag with messages like “I look forward to seeing your powerful play” and “Be a star … Continue reading
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【News】 JA-ZENCHU sets up new shop of processed foods shipped by farmers’ groups and agricultural cooperatives at business district of Otemachi in Tokyo (July 5, 2016)
JA-ZENCHU (Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives), an apex body of agricultural cooperative (JA) organizations in Japan, opened a shop on July 4 for exhibiting and selling processed foods shipped by farmers’ groups and JAs from various parts of Japan. The shop was set up on the fourth floor of JA Building located at Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku in Tokyo. It is the first time for JA Group organizations to exhibit and sell exclusively their processed foods in Tokyo. According to JA-ZENCHU, processed foods manufactured by farmers’ groups and their JAs now exceed one thousand items in the country. However, it was rather difficult for city people to get a place for easily … Continue reading
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