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Everyone: “I wouldn’t move to Miyazaki Prefecture if they paid me.”

Master Blaster
Jan 14, 2020
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Gorgeous but remote region struggles to bring people in.

Japan
(agriculture • business • depopulation • fishing • Miyazaki Prefecture • money • relocation)

Japanese cats love nothing more in the world than watching farmer next door plant his rice【Video】

Casey Baseel
May 16, 2019

Just because cats don’t like to work doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy watching other people work.

Japan
(agriculture • animals • cat cafes • cats • cute • farming • funny • pets • rice • video)

Don’t let the cold seasons snuff out your style! Japan’s lady farmers get fresh new fashion line

Katy Kelly
Sep 14, 2018

Norastyle’s new leaflet has the fall and winter looks that all farming fashionistas will want to sport. Agriculture never looked so attractive!

Japan
(agriculture • cute • fall • farmers • farming • fashion • winter)

Japanese town’s beautiful rice paddy art salutes Osamu Tezuka anime characters, Audrey Hepburn

Casey Baseel
Jul 17, 2018

Photos show rural Aomori town’s continuing tradition of artistic agriculture with convenient access for travelers.

Japan
(agriculture • anime • Aomori • Astro Boy • cool • farming • Inakadate • manga • Osamu Tezuka • rice • rice field art • rice paddy art)

Nara, Japanese city famous for its streets of tame deer, begins culling program within city

Casey Baseel
Aug 8, 2017

The animals, revered as messengers of the Shinto gods, have been damaging Nara farmers’ crops.

Japan
(agriculture • animals • controversy • culling • deer • Nara)

Japanese citrus farmers deal with crop-stealing wild boars by killing them, selling their meat

Casey Baseel
Oct 18, 2016

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When it hands you wild boars, make sausages.

Japan
(agriculture • Ehime • farms • food • fruit • meat • oranges • pork • wild boars)

Japan’s new wave of farmers: the former bikers and gang members of Vegefru Farms

Master Blaster
Oct 18, 2016

Rather than some social program saying farming is good for “troubled youth,” Vegefru Farms says “troubled youth” are the answer to farming’s prayers.

Japan
(agriculture • bikers • bosozoku • business • farming • gangs • Vegefru Farms • Yankee)

Japan’s ‘agri-tech’ farming revolution

Japan Today
Oct 11, 2016

TOKYO — Japan’s high-tech agricultural businesses are to gather at the Agri World trade fair held in Tokyo this week (Oct 12-14) to showcase the industries next generation of technologies such as plant factories, robotic automation and IT systems, claimed as advancing the “fourth industrial revolution” into the sector.

Japan
(agri-tech • agriculture • Japan Today • technology)

Cry no more: Japan to begin nationwide sales of a tear-free onion this fall

Meg Murphy
Jul 29, 2016

No longer just a ball of tears, the Smile Ball is here to change the way you think about onions.

Food & Drink, Japan
(agriculture • food & drink • Hokkaido onion • science • tear-free onion)

Japan’s better farming through precision drone strikes

Master Blaster
Jun 17, 2016

A team in Saga prefecture has successfully developed Agridrone, which will seek out and terminate pests with extreme prejudice.

Games & Tech, Japan, Lifestyle, News
(agriculture • Agridrone • drones • farming • OPTiM • Saga Prefecture)

Spirit of Ghibli lives on in gorgeous short anime promoting locally-sourced Japanese food 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jun 1, 2016

Animators with ties to Studio Ghibli and Walt Disney Japan team up for mouth-watering anime ad.

Anime & Manga, Food & Drink, Japan
(advertisements • agriculture • anime • food • Kumamoto • Studio Ghibli • video)

Stylish Japanese home gardening pod lets you grow vegetables indoors with little effort, no soil

Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2016

No back yard? No problem.

Food & Drink, Games & Tech, Japan
(agriculture • cool • farming • food • gardening • hydroponic agriculture • technology)

World’s first robot-operated farm to start operations in Japan next year

Casey Baseel
Feb 22, 2016

Kyoto facility aims to harvest 500,000 heads of lettuce a day.

Japan
(agriculture • cool • farming • Kyoto • robots • techonology)

Overachieving Japanese farmers make scarecrows that scare us too

Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2016

Scarecrows? More like terrifypeople.

Japan
(agriculture • crazy • scarecrows • scary • weird)

Yanmar wants to make coolest tractor ever

Master Blaster
Jul 29, 2013

Sure, that’s not a huge challenge, but they went well above and beyond your standard tractor design. Fresh off celebrating Osaka-based heavy manufacturer Yanmar’s centennial anniversary, designer Ken Okuyama felt it was time to inject some well-overdue fresh style into the generally conservative world of agriculture.

However, these tractors are more than just a pretty face, as we’ll soon learn.