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【News】World-renowned Japanese apricot orchards now in full bloom Minabe-Tanabe Ume Production System (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System) in Wakayama Prefecture (Feb. 21, 2016)
Ume Japanese apricot flowers are now in full bloom in Minabe-Tanabe ume orchard district for the first time after the ume production system in the region was added to the list of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in December 2015. Thanks to this winter’s warmer weather, the flowers have reached full bloom a week earlier than last year at the Minabe Bairin Ume Orchard and the Kishu Ishigami Tanabe Bairin Ume Orchard run by local farmers. Kishu Ishigami Tanabe Bairin has approximately 30,000 Japanese apricot trees on the hill. There are walking trails inside the orchard with a lookout that … 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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【News】Men in straw costumes pray to god for safe year with no fire hazard Yonekawa-no-Mizukaburi in Tome-shi, Miyagi Prefecture(Feb. 14, 2016)
Every year in early February, a group of men dressed in straw hats and coats appear in Yonekawa, Towa-cho, Tome-shi, Miyagi Prefecture. The men in the unique costumes parade through the streets to thank fire for the gift it offers to human life and pray to god for a safe year free from fire hazard. The amusing event is called “Yonekawa-no-Mizukaburi,” which literary means “a water festival of Yonekawa” in Japanese. “Ho, ho, ho!” The thirty half-naked men in the straw costumes shouted loudly to signal the start of the festival. Then, the men acting as divine messengers started from a temple in the village and walked down the streets, … Continue reading
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【News】 MAFF builds up system for attracting more foreign tourists into “Most Exciting Japanese Villages” (Feb. 13, 2016)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) plans to create a new system of developing an inbound tourism market at rural societies in the country. MAFF expects the system will be effective to authorize “Most Exciting Japanese Villages” (provisional name) by the way of comprehensively assessing a total value of rural resources in each applicant village such as traditional diets and farm production, cultures related to farmers’ activities, and availabilities of attractive landscapes. Under the new system, every local society will be entitled to apply for MAFF’s authorization to be a “Most Exciting Japanese Village” by providing MAFF with its project documents regarding an annual target of receiving foreign … Continue reading
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【Opinion】 Behind the ￥80 canned tomatoes (Feb. 16, 2016)
Senior special writer, Masaru Yamada The other day, I saw extremely cheap Italy-made cans of tomatoes sold at a supermarket in my neighborhood. The 400 gram cans were priced around ￥80 each. I bought them, opened them at home and found a couple of cylinder-shaped tomatoes packed in tomato juice. I said to my colleagues that I was shocked by the low price, and was told that it is “something quite ordinary.” Indeed, it looks like canned tomatoes are available at such prices at most online shopping sites. Imports of processed tomatoes — whole tomatoes and crushed ones, no sugar added — totaled 98,000 tons last year, amounting to ￥10.5 … Continue reading
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