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Maturity: Japan's urban youth swaps fashion for farming


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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:19:00 +0000

Young Japanese are on a mission to make farming cool again and cut Japan's frightening food deficit in the process

In a high-tech country that grew rich selling cars and electronics, young farmers are standing up to reinvent the image of agriculture. Organic farming converts, rice-growing Tokyo fashionistas and other young green fingers have trickled back into rural Japan, where many farm towns have been slowly dying amid fast-greying Japan's demographic crunch.


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