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  <Remarks by Sembikiya Fruit Co. Executive Director Ushio Oshima at the national peach research conference held in Okayama on Sunday, May 15, sponsored by the national research council for fruit trees> Sembikiya is a fruit shop founded 180 years ago in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Now we operate 17 shops including fruit parlors, and sell processed items as well as fresh fruits. We have separate companies in Kyobashi and Ginza, which make Sembikiya a group of three firms. Our main customers have been companies buying our products to send as gifts, but recently individual customers are increasing, especially in stores located in high-end residential areas. Average sale per customer is nearly … Continue reading →

  The government’s Council for Regulatory Reform has called for drastic deregulation in establishing agricultural production corporations which can own farmlands. The proposal goes against the recent trend where farmland transactions are largely shifting from selling to lending under the revised Agricultural Land Law and the farmland consolidation banks established this fiscal year. The idea apparently reflects strong request from the business community to allow farmland acquisition by private companies. The Agricultural Land Law was revised in 2009 to allow companies other than agricultural production corporations to rent farmlands. After the revision of the law, more companies began to engage in agribusiness, with the number amounting to 1,261 cases as … Continue reading →