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【News】 Meat wholesale markets to get ready for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (Feb. 20, 2016)
【News】 Meat wholesale markets to get ready for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (Feb. 20, 2016) All of 10 central meat wholesale markets located at major cities in the country have launched new projects of introducing a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system into their markets. They plan to reform their total system of handlings and shipments in their markets on the basis of the global standards for food safety management with a view to boosting exports of Japanese meats and supplies for foreign tourists visiting the country. People of these wholesale markets believe that demands for local meats will most increase especially in 2020 when the Tokyo Olympic … Continue reading
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【News】 Online food shoppers most significantly influenced by “picture” (Feb. 16, 2016)
An online survey conducted by one of leading e-retailers in Japan, Ai-LAND Co., Ltd., based at Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, found that “a product photo” most significantly influences online food shoppers when they make a purchase. The poll carried out in four weeks since Oct. 29, 2015 was validly responded by 808 consumers. The latest report on the survey, released by Ai-LAND, revealed that some changes took place in online shopping behaviors over the three years from 2012. To a multiple-answer question of “which factor most significantly influenced your decision to shop online food products,” 47 percent of the respondents chose an answer of “a product in a website picture looked so … Continue reading
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【News】 JA Youth Association to strengthen farm policy representation activities (Feb. 18, 2016)
National Council of Agricultural Co-operative Youth Associations (JA-zenseikyo) held its 62th convention in Tokyo on Feb. 16-17. More than 1,500 young farmers, representing youth associations of agricultural co-operatives (JA) throughout the country, took part in the meeting. At the final session of the two-day meeting, those young farmers adopted a declaration of the convention, “Bring together wisdom and action of young farmers!,” emphasizing their renewed determination not only to make efforts to stabilize their farm managements, but also to enhance their agricultural industry so that the following generation can take it over as an attractive industry. A “young farmers’ views contest” was organized at the convention, in which participants shared … Continue reading
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【News】 One-pot meal with “one-foot tall pile of meats” is in high demand (Feb. 14, 2016)
A hot pot dish called “Bakumori Nabe” (meat-piled cooking pot) is now gaining popularity at some of Japanese gastropubs, izakaya. These gastropubs offer special meals to their guests, ingredients of which are served on a dining table in a shape of one-foot tall pile of meats in a shallow pot. All the guests that order the dish are deeply impressed when a pot pealed with “mountain-high meats” appears in front of them. Information on this unconventional way of serving ingredients for the guests at the pubs has quickly spread on the Internet. The people of izakaya have got a very good response from their guests. The special dish of “one-foot … Continue reading
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【News】 Wild animal hunters and their partners both decreasing (Feb. 13, 2016)
The number of hunting dogs has been declining in Japan. It is now more difficult for rural people to get dogs which hunt wild boars, deer and other wild animals damaging farm crops in their society. Hunting dogs are indispensable partners of hunters. They help hunters to find out wildlife and collect animals shot with guns. Reduction in hunting with guns has brought about a decrease in hunting dogs. According to a survey conducted in 2013 by the Ministry of the Environment, 87,000 people had official licenses to hunt wild animals with traps and nets, down about 4,000 from 2008. License holders for hunting with guns such as rifles and … Continue reading
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