The future of farming: Japan goes vertical and moves indoors

Indoor agriculture is on the rise all over the world – particularly in Asia, where concerns over food safety and pesticide use in recent years have fuelled a boom in so-called plant factories. Spread, Japan’s largest vertical farm, produces more than 20,000 heads of lettuce a day in its 3000-square-metre facility outside of Kyoto.  

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Bawling babies face off in Japan’s ‘crying sumo’

More than 100 Japanese babies faced off Sunday (May 14) in a traditional “crying sumo” ring, an annual ceremony believed to bring infants good health. In the sumo ring at the precinct of the Kamegaike Hachimangu shrine in Sagamihara west of Tokyo, two hulking wrestlers held up toddlers wearing tiny sumo belts and aprons to

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CDGO Highlight: Kitakyushu City

Japan consists of four major islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu along with thousands of other smaller islands. On the Northern part of Kyushu is the city of Kitakyushu City. If you know anything about Japanese, you might know that the word kita(北) means north. Kitakyushu City is on the northern part of Kyushu island.  Kitakyushu City has

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