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【News】 Kobe City to enhance agricultural production through inviting inbound tourists to its new roadside station (Sep. 21, 2016)
Kobe City Government in Hyogo prefecture is now constructing a roadside station for marketing “Kobe brand goods” such as local farm products, Japanese sake (wine) and local wine to international tourists who have been tremendously increasing in recent years. Multi-language information service will be provided to those tourists through its website as well as a concierge office to be set up at the station. The City Government aims to increase visitors to various kinds of tourist farms in the city. The roadside station is expected to play an important role of a new base for enhancing agricultural production in the city through inviting more international and domestic tourists to visit … Continue reading
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【Editorial】Gluten-free labeling needed for rice flour products (Sep. 9，2016)
Products made from wheat flour, such as bread, pizza, noodles and cakes, are popular foods on the table all over the world. However, there are people who can’t eat them. They are the people with wheat allergy or celiac disease who are sensitive to gluten, a mixture of proteins found in wheat and related grains. Meanwhile, rice is a grain but is gluten-free. Rice flour is attracting attention as healthy food and has growing potential for exports. The government should create a gluten-free labeling system for rice flour products which can be accepted at home and abroad. There are a wide variety of good-tasting products made from wheat flour, but … Continue reading
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【News】 Community residents’ associations invited to join better living activities of farmers’ cooperatives in Iwate Prefecture (Sep. 19, 2016)
Iwate Prefectural Union of Agricultural Cooperatives is launching a new project named “Better Living Activities Promotion Program,” in which the Prefectural Union will provide a financial assistance to residents’ associations aiming to revitalize their rural community at grass-roots level. The Prefectural Union, JAs’ apex organization in Iwate prefecture, plans to assist local residents to set up their own “regional management organization” for coping with problems faced by themselves in their rural life, which organization the Abe Administration regards as a core body for revitalizing local regions in the country. At the expert panel meeting held by the Government, it was recommended for the Administration to encourage cooperation between the regional … Continue reading
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【News】 MAFF Minister says “Shady transaction of SBS imported rice possibly causes most serious problem for rice producers in Japan. MAFF launched investigation.” (Sep. 17, 2016)
At a press conference held after a cabinet meeting on September 16, Yuji Yamamoto, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), responded to a question on a controversial issue of shady transactions of rice, imported under the state-controlled “simultaneous buy and sell” (SBS) system, between trading houses and wholesalers, by saying MAFF has launched an investigation into so-called “SBS rice” deals conducted by companies concerned in past years. “SBS imported rice has been possibly distributed with lower prices than generally assumed by padding import rice prices for sales to the government under the SBS system. These transactions could have caused negative impacts on prices of locally grown rice in the … Continue reading
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【News】 Educational tour students returning to Fukushima prefecture: Study program on Great East Japan Earthquake disaster added to some school trips (Sep. 16, 2016)
Students visiting Fukushima prefecture have been increasing after some years passed since the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company took place at the eastern part of the prefecture in March 2011. Just after the disaster hit Fukushima, the prefecture saw a considerable decline in tourists. A number of junior high schools and high schools in other prefectures have resumed organizing educational tours such as school trips and camping school tours visiting the Fukushima prefecture. According to the Prefectural Government, the number of school tourists visiting the prefecture has recovered to 70 percent of the pre-disaster level. Some schools are adding a disaster-study … Continue reading
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