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【News】 Naomi Watanabe help promote Aomori-grown apples in big way (Sep. 27, 2016)
On September 26, 2016, a council for promotion of Aomori-grown apples, Aomori Prefecture Apple Measure Council, held an event in Tokyo to promote apples grown in Aomori Prefecture, featuring a famous female comedian. The plus-size comedian Naomi Watanabe appeared on stage wearing a huge apple tree Afro wig. A commercial video, in which Watanabe takes a big powerful impressive bite of an apple, is now available online on the council’s website. The hot big comedienne who has earned 5 million fans on one social networking site said that she wants to make Aomori-grown apple famous all over the world. As a girl whose weight is over 100 kilograms, she said, … Continue reading
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【News】 Rice price dip sparks nationwide protests and demonstrations in South Korea (Sep. 27, 2016)
[Jeonbuk, South Korea, by Jin Zhezhu, Maki Kondo, The Japan Agricultural News Reporters] Rice prices in South Korea dipped to the level of 30 years ago, causing a furor among local farmers. A nationwide association of 3 million South Korean farmers, the Korean Peasants League (KPL), has issued a remonstrance on September 25 and the protests are spreading all over the country with local rice farmers plowing out their preharvest rice using their own trucks or gathering in Soul to attend massive street demonstrations. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan highly praises the rice farming of the neighboring country, saying that the cost of growing rice in … Continue reading
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【News】Noh no IKEBANA: Let’s have fun choosing containers (2) Deep containers for graceful loose arrangement (Sep. 2, 2016)
The end of the summer <”Noh no Ikebana” is an art of arranging agricultural pThe end of the summerroducts together with agricultural implements and other familiar instruments. It’s a type of Ikebana but mainly for farmers. The series “Noh no Ikebana” will show you how to best feature the materials and containers you choose, with the help of fans of this style of Ikebana nationwide.> Arrangements with deep, large containers with a wide opening such as ittomasu (a large wooden bucket to measure rice), seoikago (a bamboo pannier) and a hibachi (a porcelain brazier) have strong impact, and they’ll be good event floral decors. Just having one arrangement is already … Continue reading
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【Photo series】Vegetable-only sushi attracting attention at home and abroad (Sep. 11，2016)
Vegesushi, pressed sushi that uses only vegetables, is recently drawing attention due to its colorful design and consideration for vegetarians. The new sushi was released in April by Hoxai Kitchen, a group of designers working abroad, bringing a new wave of sushi in and outside Japan. Vegesushi is created by pressing sushi rice and vegetables in a rectangular wooden mold. The group uses Akitakomachi brand of rice when making vegesushi in Japan, and Italy-made Koshihikari rice when making the product in Europe. They always use locally produced vegetables as fillings and toppings. The group, which conducts activities mainly in Europe, came up with the idea of vegetable-only sushi so that … Continue reading
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【News】Giant, seedless grapes shipped in Nagano Prefecture (Sept.16,2016)
A farmer of Nagano Prefecture shipped for the first time this year Tears Red, a new variety of grapes that is about the size of a plum. The average weight of a Tears Red berry is about 50 grams, with some growing to a near-record level of 5 centimeters in diameter and weighing more than 100 grams, compared with an average weight of 15 to 20 grams for large-size grapes. The grapes can be eaten without peeling. Yoshiyuki Iizuka, 66, head of the grapes team of Nagano Prefecture’s fruit trees research group who shipped the variety, said growers hope to promote the big-size grapes as a high-end brand, while coping … Continue reading
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