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

Casey Baseel
Jul 17, 2018
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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)

Welcome the New Year with a calendar of hunky Japanese farmers 【Pics】

Shannon McNaught
Dec 19, 2016

If this is what Japanese farmers look like, you can stick me on a train to the nearest country town.

Japan
(Amazon Japan • calendars • farming • handsome • hot guys • ikemen)

Meet the “world’s best dressed farmer,” Japan’s Kiyoto Saito 【Video】

Oona McGee
Nov 2, 2016

This stylish young man is making news internationally for working on his rice farm every day in a suit.

Japan
(culture • farming • fashion • tradition • video)

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)

The wasabi you eat probably isn’t wasabi, according to new video from Japan

Oona McGee
Oct 17, 2016

With beautiful images of pristine Japanese countryside, this clip explains why real wasabi is hard to find.

Japan
(culture • farming • food • Japanese cuisine • Nagano • tourism • tourist site • tradition • travel • videos • wasabi)

New hemp mascot character Asamiko-chan appears in Japan

Oona McGee
Sep 23, 2016

With her own official Twitter account and a town in Tottori Prefecture behind her, Japan’s first ever cannabis character comes dressed as a pink-haired shrine maiden.

Japan
(Asamiko • cannabis • farming • hemp • hemp seed • Mascots • shrines • Tottori)

Japanese train stopped in its tracks after elderly resident leaves vegetables in its path

Oona McGee
Jun 29, 2016

Passengers were surprised to hear the announcement: “The train will be delayed due to vegetables on the tracks“.

Japan
(farming • Odakyu • potato • potatoes • Railway Crossings • trains • vegetables • wtf)

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)

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)

Japanese farming simulator rewards players with actual crops delivered to their door

Mike
May 12, 2015

Remember back in the day when all of your older relatives and the kids you knew from school but never speak to any more would send you invites to play Farmville? Remember how seeing a new notification on your Facebook toolbar that just turned out to be yet another invitation to play f’$%ng Farmville would fill you with impotent rage?

Well think about how different your reaction might have been if your “friends” hadn’t been backhandedly asking you to help them raise their not-actually-existent virtual ducks and cabbages, but were in fact asking you to help them put real, actual food in their mouths.

One Japanese startup, Telefarm, is hoping that the future is online games that reward players for good performance with actual products delivered to their door. And they’ve been running a farming simulator prototype for a little over a year now to test that model’s feasibility.

Japan
(culture • farming • games • online games • Simulators • technology • vegetables)

Plow the town red with Yanmar’s sleek and stylish line of tractors

Master Blaster
Nov 24, 2014

About a year and half ago we brought word of Yanmar’s concept tractor the Y-Concept YTO1 Advanced Tractor. Boasting the sleekest design to grace any tractor and other high-tech features, the Osaka company aimed for a whole new way to look at farming. However, like many concept vehicles, no one was holding their breath for it to actually materialize on the market.

However, this spring Yanmar came through on their promise of futuristic farm-wear for sale in limited quantities to the public, but still no tractor. Then, out of the blue on 19 November it came. The first models of the YT Series tractor were announced for sale in May of 2015.

Japan
(farming • tractor • Yanmar)

Oklahoma farmer loses his cellphone in 140 tons of grain — 9 months later gets a call from Japan

BUSINESS INSIDER
Jul 9, 2014

Kevin Whitney of Chickasha, Oklahoma, was working on his farm last October when his iPhone fell out of his shirt pocket and up a grain elevator, where it was deposited into a pit containing 280,000 pounds of grain.

“I never expected to see that phone again,” he told KFOR-TV. It was a reasonable conclusion.

Japan, USA
(cool • farming • news • story)

High-end Japanese farm wear now available for public consumption

Master Blaster
Apr 4, 2014

Last year, Osaka-based heavy manufacturer Yanmar unveiled some major changes to their line-up. Hoping to breathe fresh life into the age-old life of farming, they designed a bad-ass tractor and futuristic farming wear.

Since then, the rest of us have had to deal with uppity Japanese farmers walking around town in their high-end fashions with their noses firmly aimed at the sky. They say they’re just avoiding the manure smell, but everyone knows what really stinks.

However, now Yanmar is letting us lowly peasants get a taste of the high life, by releasing a limited number of their cutting-edge farm wear for sale to the general public. As you can imagine, this kind of fashion doesn’t come cheap.

Japan
(farming • fashion • wtf • Yanmar)

North Koreans unsure how to handle 560 kg of potatoes in sudden ration flip-flop

Scott R Dixon
Oct 18, 2013

North Korean potato farmers breathed a sigh of relief this month when they found out their monthly ration of the crop would be restored and not canceled as earlier reported. The announcement was soon met with confusion however when the workers in the northern Ryanggang Province found out that each of them would receive 560 kg—eight monthly rations-worth—of potatoes at once. Even a notorious eater like North Korean leader Kim Jong Un might find it difficult to stomach that many carbs.

North Korea
(farming • food • North Korea • potato • rationing)

Japanese farmer creates the world’s first heart-shaped watermelon

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Sep 13, 2013

We’re sure you’ve heard of square watermelons from Japan, but how about heart-shaped ones? After many years of research, Hiroichi Kimura, a farmer from Kumamoto Prefecture, has finally done it! But it was no easy task shaping the originally round fruits into the symbol of love. Let’s take a closer look at the fruits of this farmer’s labor.

Japan
(farming • watermelon)

Chiharu Hatakeyama and self-sufficiency in the 21st century【People we love】

Philip Kendall
Aug 8, 2013

“Forgive me for asking so abruptly,” Chiharu Hatakeyama begins as she stands on a stage decked out in the familiar TED colours of black, white and red, “but who among you thinks they could wring the neck of a chicken before they ate it?”

After the events of March 11, 2011, when the largest recorded earthquake in Japanese history tore the northeast to pieces and brought with it a wall of water that smashed through everything in its path, Chiharu decided that she had to change. Realising that her entire world could be turned completely upside down in the blink of an eye and that she relied on others–most often people that she had never nor would ever meet–in almost every facet of her life, she set out to achieve a life of complete self-sufficiency. Growing her own vegetables, butchering her own meat, making accessories and clothes for herself, she is now sharing her newly acquired knowledge with as many people as she can via her blog, Facebook page, and more recently a TEDxTokyo talk. This is her story.