At his host family’s home, rice was served with every meal — breakfast, lunch, and dinner — but always in modest servings. “A Japanese bowl of rice is small, about 140 grams, roughly 200 calories,” he ...

Author Nancy Singleton Hachisu will share with us an insider's look into life on a Japanese farm, and how food, love, community and life come together in rural Japan. In this talk, Nancy will share ...

Hidaka, Hokkaido – The world of publishing is a fickle place where, without rhyme or reason, even internationally acclaimed authors can have projects surreptitiously scuttled. In the perennially ...

There could be more opportunities as Japan increasingly relies on foreign workers to sustain its agricultural sector. Japan’s agricultural workforce has dropped below one million for the first time in ...