Articles
-query word : Farming
October 01, 2009
Vol. 23: Japanese Shorthorn Cattle
Lean and flavorful, Japanese Shorthorn beef is popular with many connoisseurs of good food. It was approved as a native ...
September 17, 2009
The Policies Needed to Rebuild Japanese Agriculture
Agricultural policy was one of the major points of contention in Japan’s recent general election. The influence of rural voters ...
July 14, 2009
Vol. 20: Domestic Flour
Of the wide variety of noodles of Japan, among the most popular is a thick wheat flour noodle called udon. ...
June 24, 2009
Vol. 19: Rice Grown in Rice Terraces
Rice terraces are paddies fields made on sloping land that follow the natural contour lines. Suited to the Japanese geography, ...
June 02, 2009
Vol. 18: Wasabi
Wasabi is known across the world as a condiment for sushi. It only grows under highly specific conditions, and, most ...
April 21, 2009
Vol. 16: The Red Turnips of Kiso
Several varieties of red turnip are grown in communities dotting the Kiso mountain range in Nagano Prefecture. They have mostly ...
March 10, 2009
Vol. 14: Eight-Rowed Corn
Eight-rowed corn sustained the lives of those who had newly settled Hokkaido in the late nineteenth onward. It has since ...
February 27, 2009
The Agricultural Cooperatives and
Farming Reform in Japan (2)
The collusive triangle of Japan’s agricultural cooperatives, Diet members defending agricultural interests, and MAFF continues to grow tighter, as shown ...
January 20, 2009
The Agricultural Cooperatives and
Farming Reform in Japan (1)
For the past half century, Japan's powerful organization of agricultural cooperatives has used its tremendous political clout, backed by ...
January 29, 2009
The Issues in the Farmland System
Tracing the history of how Japan's farmland system has been administered back to 1952, when the Agricultural Land Law was ...
