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farming

 投稿者:Robert  投稿日:2009年11月 8日(日)15時26分9秒
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  It was said that many Japanese youth are using internet to find a new way for agriculture.
I know some local resturants are buying vegetables and other meterials from farmer directly.
 

Farming & MJ.

 投稿者:Hamish  投稿日:2009年 8月 8日(土)12時44分48秒
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  In the U.S. some households are buying food directly from farmers over the internet. Some people there even buy whole sides of beef.
Do many Japanese people buy food directly from farmers? I know two Japanese people who occasionally buy rice directly from rice farmers.
R.I.P. Michael.
 

Up!

 投稿者:Willy  投稿日:2009年 7月21日(火)19時24分16秒
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  Peke,

Thanks for the clips -- both were very interesting!

I still remember watching MJ's performance on Motown 25 back in 1983. I was very impressed then, and now watching it 26 years later I'm still impressed by his amazing dancing ability.

The Jon Stewart clip was also great -- he is consistently funny and the show is almost always thought-provoking.

Now for something on the lighter side, have you seen this trailer yet? Like the other Pixar movies, it looks like it will be good!
 

Observed a moment of silence, for Michael

 投稿者:Peke  投稿日:2009年 7月 5日(日)23時57分11秒
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  Nearly 1 week after the great loss,
I started watching his music videos and keeping myself away
from hanky-panky autopsy spree.

This is my most favorite video, performed on Motown 25,
every motion was amazingly sharp (his eyes, too).
Of course the motions became essential for his dance,
toe-standing, kicking, and moonwalk --- not yet to complete,
but to me it's more beautiful, it might be a sort of his
adolescence I sensed  here. Hope it's not only me.

I love Jon Stewart, too --- good to know he is always on our side.

PS. If you want to see high quality video, please search in YouTube
with typing "HD" besides the music title.
 

It's Magic, Charlie Brown

 投稿者:Willy  投稿日:2009年 4月10日(金)11時29分36秒
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  Hello, Peke,

Thanks very much for your interesting, entertaining, and informative post. The Daily Show clip was great -- you deserve the Heinz Medal for Humorous Posting!

But I have no ketchup or other Heinz products, so for now you'll just have to settle for some Peanuts!

 

Farm life

 投稿者:Peke  投稿日:2009年 4月 2日(木)23時40分16秒
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  Long time no see, Hamish. Apparently Japanese agriculture has been in peril for decades, no longer compete with foreign products on price, however, I suppose Japanese farmers find some handholds to survive recently. As people doubt the reliability of foreign foods and are aware of LOHAS movement, some Japanese farmer opens their field as agricultural institute.
My friend’s brother teaches urban elder people how to grow vegetable, how to maintain good soil and so on. Maybe some farmer family starts to run a guesthouse nearby, farmers’ wives come up with a lot of recipe of each item and put it on their website, hold harvest festival or farmers market as well. Anyway Japanese farm must achieve functions of agricultural education and literacy, make it more interactive, enjoyable besides crops … in this small land.

How about me? Agriculture is closer thing to me. I’ve grown up in a farming village, neighbors let me in their farm and allowed us to pick the fruit and vegetable. I learned that --- the sweeter the strawberry was, the more mice or insects bit. There were both sides of life, not only beautiful but also wild. The life wasn’t and still isn’t like land of milk and honey at all, it’s something muddy, boring, sometimes rather dirty ---- but healthy.

Thanks your comment, Willy. I will give you a Frito Lay Medal of Honor! Ummm? You don't understand that? Please find out by clicking here ! (Everybody, check it up, see transcript!!)
 

Food & "Food"

 投稿者:Willy  投稿日:2009年 3月24日(火)14時53分9秒
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  Hamish's post was very interesting and reminded me of two slightly related things.

One of them in the Green Lantern Project, in which restaurants that use locally produced ingredients hang out green lanterns that indicate this. At least 50% of the ingredients they use must be from local sources. I've been looking, but I have yet to see a green lantern hanging outside a restaurant in Osaka. Has anybody seen one in Osaka or somewhere in Kansai?

The other, much less related topic, is about really unnecessary food products. I'm proud to say that my country is probably #1 in making "food" products that are not only lack nutritional value, but also might kill you in the bargain! Yeah for the home team! Check this Daily Show episode out (if you have the free time) and look for the reference to "Baconnaise" (it's about five minutes into the episode). And thanks to Peke for letting me know about this!
 

Agriculture

 投稿者:Hamish  投稿日:2009年 3月23日(月)16時31分29秒
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  Hi. How are you? Is anyone out there in cyberspace interested in agriculture? The reason that I ask that question is because last night I met someone whose friend apparently just received an award from the Emperor of Japan for services to agriculture if I am not mistaken. Naturally, I’d previously heard about the Emperor awarding people for their services to the culture of Japan, but until yesterday I never knew the Emperor gave people awards for their services to the agriculture of Japan. I guess people who know how to grow vegetables and fruit and therefore feed people and provide jobs should be rewarded, just as those who perform or teach others to perform should be if they do it to a very high standard.

Do you know anyone who is a farmer? I think I’ve only taught one or two farmers daughters in my time in Japan and both of those students had spent all of their adult lives in Osaka city and had not married farmers. In other words, these students were uninterested in continuing their families’ tradition of working the land.

While I’m sure it must be tough to make a living as a farmer in Japan, on the other hand Japan apparently needs more farmers. Many Japanese have recently become aware of how necessary having a domestic food supply is (i.e. fruit and vegetables grown domestically and domestic farm animals). I say this particularly because of the many food scares of last year from tainted food from China. Also, I say it, because I recall how shocked many Japanese people were two years ago when it was revealed how Japan little food Japan produces domestically. Japan imports a lot more food than many other countries do if we believe the newspapers.

In spite of the above problems though, consumers in Japan have to be able to trust locally produced food, yet some Japanese food makers or distributors have really let down the Japanese public and foreigners living in Japan in the past couple of years especially by selling old food, dangerous food, or fake food that is falsely labeled.

Working on a farm is not easy, but hopefully some people who recently became unemployed in Japan might be able to find work on farms here. Maybe Japan needs some more “super-farms” (huge farms like America). Yet super-farms aren’t perfect either!
 

Economy 2

 投稿者:Hamis  投稿日:2009年 2月28日(土)00時17分37秒
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  Apparently, President Obama wants to introduce a stimulus policy to help the U.S. economy recover. What are Japanese politicians doing to mend Japan’s economy? Do you worry about the economy, or do you feel it is out of your hands (i.e. in the hands of politicians and the presidents and multi-national companies).

On a slightly different note, it is said that culture (music, movies, literature, art) reflects the times it was made in. Do you feel that many of this decade’s expressions of culture haven’t been positive or optimistic? Then again, some people argue that turbulent times lead to more lasting expressions of culture. For example, many great songs, books, and movies were made in the 1960’s because it was a period of great change. Yet, still I think it is easier to find a mix of both lasting light and dark aspects of culture in the 1960’s than it is in this decade. Also, I wonder in future decades what aspects of 1990’s and 2000 culture people will remember and praise? To be blunt, culturally I think very little of those decades will be remembered and praised.
 

Economy 1

 投稿者:Hamish  投稿日:2009年 2月28日(土)00時14分24秒
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  Hi. I was wondering has the price of new and used cars in Japan stayed the same, or has it come down, or gone up this year? I ask this question because Time magazine has had a couple of articles about car sales in America going down, but in only one of those articles did they mention that the price of one brand of car, Subaru has come down. Which makes me wonder, have Toyota and other Japanese car makers lowered the prices of their cars this year too?

If you are working for a company that makes or manufactures things, has your company lowered its prices in response to the bad economy or has it increased its prices? Last year in Japan many restaurant chains increased their prices because the cost of food or ingredients went up. Have hotels increased their prices this year in Japan?
 

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