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【News】 ZEN-NOH’s affiliate and seafood wholesaler unite to expand overseas markets for Japanese farm products by boosting “Sushi” exports (June 8, 2016)
Washoku Works Inc., established jointly by ZEN-NOH (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations) headquartered at Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and a comprehensive food corporation, mainly exporting frozen foods produced in Japan, plans to expand the overseas operations of Sushi restaurants in collaboration with Uoriki Co., Ltd., operating wholesale and retail shops of seafood, based at Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo. Washoku Works (literally, Japanese cuisine works) will open an experimental restaurant of Sushi and Japanese cuisines in Singapore by the end of the fiscal 2016. They also aim to take a step to increase sales of Japanese rice and other farm products in overseas markets, with the advantage that the company can supply the high … Continue reading
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【News】 Echizen Paper & Culture Museum handing papermaking tradition on to future in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture (May 15, 2016)
Echizen Washi is a type of Japanese paper with a 1,500-year history manufactured in Fukui Prefecture. Echizen Washi no Sato (Echizen Paper & Culture Museum) in Echizen-shi, Fukui Prefecture, is the place where you can have a first-hand experience of the paper-making tradition and culture. In one of its most popular facilities, Papyrus House, you can create your original Japanese paper with your own hands. Another popular attraction here is Udatsu Paper & Craft Museum where you can actually see how local artisans make Echizen washi papers using traditional tools. Every year, the museum attracts approximately 150,000 visitors. In Papyrus House, you’ll see many visitors enjoying traditional papermaking processes on … Continue reading
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【News】 Farmer’s son Daisuke Narimatsu to challenge for gold at boxing tournament of Rio 2016 Summer Olympics (June 7, 2016)
A lightweight boxer, a farmer’s son in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, will participate in a boxing tournament at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics beginning on August 5. He is Daisuke Narimatsu, 26, born in a rice producer’s family living at Minami-ku, Kumamoto City. He graduated from Kumamoto Prefectural Kumamoto Agricultural High School and entered Tokyo University of Agriculture . Narimatsu began his boxing career at the Kumamoto Agricultural High School. Since he graduated from the University, he has been belonging to the Physical Training School of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) at Nerima-ku, Tokyo, where he is continuously training for the Rio Olympics as an executive member of JSDF. When the … Continue reading
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【News】 More than two thousand farmers, fishers and their supporters gather to pledge “We will surely revive Kumamoto!” (June 5, 2016)
A meeting to aim at hastening restoration and recovery from the earthquakes was held at Kumamoto city in Kumamoto prefecture on June 4. More than two thousand people, including farmers, fishers, forest owners, and representatives of agricultural cooperatives (JAs) and other related organizations, participated in the meeting. The participants adopted a resolution to pledge themselves to concentrate their efforts particularly on rehabilitation of their living and business activities so as to achieve early restoration and recovery from the disaster. In the resolution, they also called the Government for its financial support as well as policy implementation for establishing sustainable industries of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Kumamoto prefecture. A number … Continue reading
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【News】 G20 Agriculture Ministers commit at Xi’an China to raise agricultural productivity and enhance active involvement of women and young people in food production (June 4, 2016)
The Agriculture Ministers of the Group of Twenty (G20), 19 developed and emerging countries plus the European Union, met in Xi’an, China, on June 3. At the G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, they adopted the Communiqué to pursue the establishment of food security through technological innovation by applying Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the like to raise agricultural productivity. Japan was represented by Hiroshi Moriyama, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries at the Meeting. He has joined the talks so that the G20 Ministers could share the fruits of the Group of Seven (G7) Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting chaired by himself at Niigata, Japan on April 23-24. The G20 Agriculture Ministers … Continue reading
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