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Giant torches set night sky ablaze in prayer for huge harvest Katsube Fire Festival in Moriyama-Shi, Shiga Prefecture（Jan.17,2016）
On the second Saturday in January every year at the Katsube Shrine in Moriyama-shi, Shiga Prefecture, half-naked young male villagers wearing fundoshi loincloths dance wildly around the blazing fire to pray for huge harvest. The festival with an 800 years of history is called Katsube Shrine Fire Festival and is continued by today’s young villagers. Early in the morning on January 9 this year, people gathered at the shrine to make 12 giant torches using timbers of Alnus japonica, bamboo and rapeseed straws. The torches are about 5 to 6 meters long and weigh over 400 kilograms each. They are made by assembling several pieces of bamboo around a timber … Continue reading
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【News】 Big red plump tomato grow in whiskey bottle (Jan. 16, 2016)
Kentrou Tominaga Growing a big red tomato in a bottle. That’s what this 72-year-old gentleman in Omihachiman-shi, Shiga Prefecture, does it as a hobby. Hitoshi Watanabe, who is actually a vegetable farmer, uses clear empty whiskey bottles of approximately 25 centimeters tall. He puts one young tomato in a bottle when it’s small enough to fit in the 3-centimeter mouth of the bottle, carefully not to drop the tomato off the branch. Then he takes care of it, always making sure that the bottle is tightly fixed and untouched as much as possible. When the tomato gets big, he cuts it off the branch and fills the bottle with … Continue reading
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【Series】 Japanese food worth sharing with world – Deep fried kuwai flitters from Saitama Prefecture (Jan. 15, 2016)
Luxury Arrowhead Recipe Kuwai, a root of the sagittaria plant also known as an arrowhead in English, is one of many lucky foods for the new year in Japan. As it sprouts easily and vigorously, it’s said to be a symbol of successful life and good luck in the future. But in one of Japan’s largest kuwai producing regions, Saitama Prefecture, it’s one of the staple ingredients for the local favorites including slow-simmered kuwai, fried whole kuwai, kuwai crispy chips, and of course, deep fried kuwai flitters. The plants are grown in the paddy field and kuwai growers need a good source of water. The prefecture was found suitable … Continue reading
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【News】 Restructuring farming materials sector necessary, ruling party’s head of agricultural division says (Jan. 14, 2015)
Shinjiro Koizumi, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Agriculture and Forestry Division, said Wednesday, Jan. 13, that structural reform in procurement of farming materials is necessary to reduce costs as part of measures to cope with market liberalization under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Koizumi, who was visiting retailers and suppliers of farming materials in Ibaraki Prefecture, suggested merging of fertilizer manufacturing plants to improve productivity. He also pointed to the low ratio of agriculture-related loans by the Norinchukin Bank, saying that he will monitor the situation. The LDP plans to launch a project team headed by Koizumi to start discussing next week issues that remain to be dealt … Continue reading
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【News】 Winter beauty of Japan: Mt. Fuji and corn cobs (Jan. 10, 2016)
Kotaro Yamada In winter, many tourists come to Oshio Village in Yamanashi Prefecture to see this charming sight – bright orange corn cobs hung out to dry outdoor with Mt. Fuji in the background. As a matter of fact, it’s already one of the winter attractions in Japan that can be experienced only in this season. The wooden rack for drying corn cobs belongs to a 73-year-old villager, Ken Amano. Every year in winter for about 20 years, he sets up the rack and hangs out approximately 700 corn cobs of “koshu” corn (a crop indigenous to Yamanashi Prefecture) to dry in the air. Until about 1950, koshu corn … Continue reading
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