Yuzu citrons grown in the field are harvested from late July through early December; supplies typically last through March. Their peak market time is November, when the fruit are yellow. In Kochi prefecture, Japan’s largest yuzu producer,
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2022.01.13
Taku Abe heads MOA, a five-hectare farm in Shizuoka that upholds principles of natural farming taught by Mokichi Okada (1882–1955).
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2021.12.06
“Some 6.3 billion sheets of nori are made in Japan annually,” says Motoyuki Shinjaku of Mikuni-ya, a leading producer of the dried laver seaweed that’s pressed into thin sheets and known around the world as the wrapper for sushi.
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2021.11.04
Toshihiko Moriyama, the fourth-generation head of a century-old apple farm, decided to make good use of the fruit thinned out in the growing process.
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2021.10.11
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Ta...
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2021.09.06
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Akito Shimomura / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba The...
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2021.08.06
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Ao...
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2021.07.05
JOURNAL / JAPAN 日本語(Japanease) text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English ...
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2021.06.07
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Fi...
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2021.05.10
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Th...
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2021.04.12
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba In...
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2021.03.15
When we arrive at Farm Red & Green after lunch on a sunny November afternoon, all is quiet, save...
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2021.03.08