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Okayama Prefecture to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights abroad for its fruit brands
OKAYAMA, March 18 – The Okayama Prefectural Government will strengthen protection of intellectual property rights abroad for brands of peaches and grapes developed in the prefecture, amid the increase of usurped patent applications filed outside Japan. Starting in fiscal 2019, the prefectural government will conduct research on cases of infringement of intellectual property rights and prepare to register fruit varieties and trademarks in foreign countries, especially in Southeast Asian nations, in addition to Taiwan and Hong Kong which are the key export destinations for fruits produced in Okayama. Okayama Prefecture allocated 7.16 million yen for the project in the fiscal 2019 draft budget, more than triple the amount of 2 … Continue reading
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Miss World Japan candidate appointed as Green Ambassador
TOKYO, Feb. 19 ― Japan’s forestry agency has appointed Reika Fujimoto, one of final candidates for Miss World Japan 2019, as green goodwill ambassador to promote the awareness and importance of Japanese forestry tradition. Fujimoto, 26, a former member of the Takarazuka Music School in western Japan, becomes the fifth of the country’s green goodwill ambassador. For one year, she will attend events related to Japanese forestry.
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Agriculture should be taught in primary school: JA group chef
OSAKA, Feb. 16 ― Agriculture should be taught in primary school, Japan’s most powerful farm group chef has said. Toru Nakaya, chairman of the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-ZENCHU), spoke in Osaka on Feb. 15 with Masaru Sato, a former Japanese diplomat and now noted commentator, over the future state of agriculture. “Even teachers in school nowadays have no clue about agriculture, no understanding,” Nakaya said. “They consider farm products as same as industrial goods. “I think that agriculture should be an essential subject at school,” he added. Nakaya emphasized that school going children can visit local farms to learn and appreciate where their food comes from. Sato agrees … Continue reading
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A plentiful supply of locally-grown chicory is ready in Japan
SAITAMA, Feb. 18 ― Japanese growers are harvesting chicory leaves in Saitama, one of the country’s main suppliers of the western vegetable for more than three decades. The chicory heads have fully grown out of the root and are now ready to be packaged. All this is done in early mornings or evenings to avoid daylight in order to maintain the white color of delicate leaves.
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“Sun” on wall watching over children’s smile at park created by quake-hit farmer
IWATE, Mar. 11 – The large mural measures 8 meters in height and 43 meters in width and under the colorful trees and flowers, children are holding hands with each other－the picture on the wall was painted by Saeko Fujii, a 74-year-old persimmon farmer in Kamaishi city, Iwate Prefecture, and the locals. She turned part of her farmland into the park and painted the wall of the adjacent plant with the colorful picture for the children who lost their playgrounds because of the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake, The idea of painting the wall came from a word murmured by a girl. In 2012, Fujii created the park … Continue reading
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