Comments on: Go Farm, Young Man! - How Farming in Japan is Changing

By: japanese pig rodeo « the irresistible fleet of bicycles

japanese pig rodeo « the irresistible fleet of bicycles — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:09:08 +0000

[...] Eats: Finding a Model in Japan’s Young Farmer Corps Global Voices: Go Farm, Young Man! – How Farming in Japan is Changing New York Times: For Young Japanese, It’s Back to the [...]

By: fundamentally sound » fashionable farming

fundamentally sound » fashionable farming — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:33:04 +0000

[...] a farm), the consciousness-raising exposes of Michael Pollan, or the trendy movement taking hold in Japan for young people to want to go back to the farm from the cities. There are even agricultural courses online to learn how to be a [...]

By: Inaka « Morotsuka

Inaka « Morotsuka — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:37:20 +0000

[...] MIYAZAKI – Inaka. The word seems to be at the tip of everyone’s tongue when I mention I live in Morotsuka. It means “country” literally, but it suggests something less idyllic than what one might have in mind when thinking of small mountainous villages where fireflies dance in mid-summer and beautiful rice paddies stretch along the hills reflecting the sky in its waters. It suggests something more along the lines of traditional, perhaps even backwards. Yet Japan has deep rural roots and a deep appreciation for nature from the romanticized countryside in books and poetry, to sacred natural areas in Shinto. And as some new social trends suggest, these romanticized outlooks are not limited to this more traditional past, but exists among Japan’s present-day youth. [...]

By: Tomomi Sasaki

Tomomi Sasaki — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:40:55 +0000

Thanks Darg,

The amount of updated information available on the site is impressive.

From the reading that I did for this article, it feels like research and outreach for agriculture is more active on a prefecture level rather than the national level. Kanagawa looks like a good example of that.

By: darg

darg — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:48:20 +0000

I actually was just translating something from the Kanagawa Agricultural Technology Center last week, so new agriculture is fresh in my mind!

On that note, another way they’re trying to move things in a different direction is research into new crop breed and farming techniques – Kanagawa gives a lists of varieties and patents that they either have or are pending, and they’re really putting some effort into agricultural research.

They also listed any number of times that they get a lot of interest from women, new graduates and U-turners/J-turners that want to start up businesses.

There’s some interesting stuff if you look out there.

By: Tomomi Sasaki

Tomomi Sasaki — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:37:10 +0000

Actually, the Japan Times that wrote that article but thanks for the Soc, love the title!

By: JapanSoc

JapanSoc — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:49:46 +0000

Japanese Farmers 2.0 – How Farming in Japan is Changing…

Tomomi Sasaki writes about how the farming landscape is changing in Japan with young farmers blogging their way to success….

By: El Oso » Archive » [Review] The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Dog-Eared Bible to a Movement

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:47:09 +0000

[...] cousin from another dozen, Tomami Sasaki, and her partner in crime, Scilla Alecci, I learned that a renaissance agricultural movement is also beginning to take hold in Japan. But this isn’t the same back-to-the-land luddite rhetoric of the 1960’s; these young [...]