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【News】 Gibier festivals increasingly held in Japan to spread message “Enjoy Gibier Cuisine just in Summer Season” (July 31, 2016)
A number of restaurants increasingly launched a new business of serving wild game (gibier) dishes made with deer and wild boar meats this summer with a slogan of “Enjoy Gibier Cuisine just in Summer Season.” Their attractive message emphasizes that good tastes of gibier meats are condensed in summer season because deer and other wild animals grow this season taking lots of nutrient-rich green grasses. Gibier meats are in season now. Appeals for consumption of gibier meats in summer season are being spread by many restaurants to deny customers’ understanding that the meats are available only during hunting seasons of autumn and winter. These restaurants have been challenging a business … Continue reading
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【News】Candles brighten up terraced rice fields for Firefly Bonfire Festival in Yokoze-machi, Saitama Prefecture (July 10, 2016)
Approximately 600 candles and small lanterns brightened up the stepped rice paddies in Terasaka, Yokoze-machi, Saitama Prefecture. The Firefly Bonfire Festival prepared by local farmers offered its visitors a splendid experience of enjoying candle lights, with city lights in the background. The candle light festival started on June 30 this year and lasted for three days, being hosted by a group of local farmers who gathered to restore the stepped rice paddies in Terasaka, Yokoze-machi. The farmers prepared two types of light sources, candles in bamboo candle holders and cans with bio-diesel fuel (BDF). The festival is an event to appreciate farmers’ hard work after the rice planting season. It … Continue reading
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【News】 Highest priced rice certified in Guinness World Records: 11,304 yen per 1 kg (July 29, 2016)
Toyo Rice Corporation, one of the major rice diversified manufacturers in Japan based at Chuo-ku, Tokyo, made an announcement that its own brand rice produced in Japan was certified and listed in the Guinness World Records as the “World’s Most Expensive Rice” (11,304 yen per 1 kg). The Toyo Rice manufactured the “World’s Highest Quality Rice” by blending several varieties of rice, carefully selected from among top quality ones such as “Niigata-Koshihikari” and “Kumamoto-Nikomaru,” which were awarded gold prizes at the International Contest on Rice Taste Evaluation in 2015. The Corporation applies a unique technology in polishing the brown rice of the selected varieties, which does not remove effective ingredients from … Continue reading
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【News】 Rice produced in northern island Hokkaido is exported to Singapore along with snow-melted bottled water (July 28, 2016)
Hokuren, Hokkaido Economic Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, launched a new business of exporting Hokkaido rice along with mineral water to Singapore. The bottled water is newly developed specially for boosting exports of Hokkaido rice to a tropical country of Singapore, which is named as “Daisetsuzan (literally, great snow mountain) water in Hokkaido.” At a number of supermarkets in Singapore, Hokkaido rice and its water are displayed for sale in the same section with guiding information saying “Enjoy taste of Hokkaido rice cooked with Hokkaido water.” By exporting bottled water with rice packages, Hokuren has raised a filling ratio of the containers for rice shipment, which made it possible to transport … Continue reading
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【News】 JA’s hospital develops medical instrument for checking walking postures of backache and knee-pain patients: Saku Central Hospital in Nagano prefecture (July 27, 2016)
Saku Central Hospital, operated by Nagano Prefectural Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for Health and Welfare, based at Saku-shi, Nagano Prefecture, has developed a medical instrument to check whether walking postures are causing back and knee pains, in collaboration with a measuring instrument manufacturer in the city. The new instrument has made it possible for the doctor of the Hospital to instantly find out problems of walking postures of a patient and display them on the screen of a computer by checking the postures with sensors attached on the back and waist of the patient. These two sensors send information to the computer by detecting up and down movements of various … Continue reading
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