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【News】 “Health-oriented” beer garden serving locally-grown vegetables enjoys enormous popularity in Yokohama (July 20, 2016)
Outdoor beer gardens are now drawing attention of the industries concerned, when an extremely hot summer is expected to come to Japan. Takashimaya Yokohama Store, one of the most popular department stores in Kanagawa prefecture, opened its beer garden named “Farmers’ Beer Garden” on the roof floor this June for the first time during past 58 years since its foundation. In the beer garden opened at Nishi-ku of Yokohama city in the prefecture, farm products are playing not a supporting role, but a leading role, so as to differentiate the garden from the existing ones. The new beer garden is gaining popularity especially among health-oriented people. Ten kinds of vegetables … 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】 “Shaved frozen vegetables” debut at a café in Shibuya, Tokyo this summer (July 16, 2016)
A special menu of “shaved ice & frozen cucumber” and “shaved ice topped with tomato juice” are now gaining popularity at a café in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. After being frozen without adding any water, these fresh organic vegetables are topped on the shaved ice. The café named “Inner Beauty Bar” is operated by “john masters organics Tokyo,” which is well known as a shop of organic hair-care products. Their sales-boosting marketing words are saying “Enjoy shaved ice of a new feel.” The special menu has two kinds of vegetable shaved ice: “Tropical Green” with frozen cucumber & pineapple on the top, and “Fresh Tomato,” which costs respectively 850 yen (excluding tax) … Continue reading
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【Editor’s column】Let’s give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a time of Zen (July 13, 2016)
Wuzu Fayan, a Chinese Zen master of the Song dynasty known as Goso Hoen in Japanese, left a saying admonishing those who monopolize power. He said people in power tend to behave arrogantly, but it is when you have power that you should listen to others. He warned that misfortunes will come to those who steamroller the opposition. Great leaders are great listeners, he said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s supremacy was cemented further by the Liberal Democratic Party’s victory in the Upper House election. Abe also managed to fulfill his long-cherished wish of political forces in favor of revising the Constitution securing a two-thirds majority in the chamber. He is … Continue reading
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【News】 Nation’s largest greenhouse complex to begin operation in Kochi prefecture this summer (July 15, 2016)
One of the largest greenhouse complexes in Japan begins its operation at Shimanto-cho in Kochi prefecture this summer. It covers a land area of 4.3 hectares in the town. Tomatoes will be produced by using a cultivation solution in the greenhouses. Most advanced technologies of wood chip-fired boilers and Dutch-style environment controlling are demonstrated there. Three companies plans to cultivate tomatoes at the greenhouses in the farming complex. It is expected that they will produce 1,651 tons of tomatoes in a year, which is equivalent to almost 30 percent of the total shipment in Kochi prefecture. In the area of the complex, they also have a facility for studying cultivation … Continue reading
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