Photo by YongKil Ko
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Photo by YongKil Ko
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Photo by YongKil Ko
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Odaiba

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Odaiba

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Would you like to open your eyes to delicious Japanese food and agricultural products? Farming Frontier 2012 is a perfect event to come and taste it for yourself.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) will be holding a joint event in Tokyo on December 1 (Sat.) and 2 (Sun.), 2012, to “showcase the attractiveness of Japanese food and agricultural Products.”

Japan’s agriculture faces various challenges; the situation becoming increasingly severe after the 3.11 earthquake disaster. Rebuilding and energizing the food and agriculture industry, the core industry of local economies including the affected areas, has become a crucial task for Japan. The aim of this even to reconstruct the value of Japanese food and agriculture is an important part of this project.

Don’t miss this opportunity to come see and taste for yourself the delicious products of Japan’s cutting-edge food and agriculture industry.

Watch the video and learn more:

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Inokashira Park straddles Musashino and Mitaka in western Tokyo, Japan.

Photo by Edward Liew
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Today we will be talking about Chisato Otomo, who specializes in two seemingly opposite professions. She is both a fashion designer and an instructor of new Japanese buyō, a genre of the traditional dance associated with geisha. The pictures provided are from one of the practice sessions, which we managed to sit in on.

Ms. Otomo, born and raised in Fukagawa, Tokyo, first started practicing new Japanese buyō at a young age. Her mother became too busy to care for her, and decided to send her to lessons of some kind. As it turned out, the Japanese buyō studio was closest to their house, and so at the age of two, she started down the path of traditional Japanese dance.

For the ten years when Chisato Otomo was in her twenties, she distanced herself from dance to pursue her goals in the world of fashion. At that time, Shibuya 109 was making it big in fashion geared for kogyaru (trend-conscious teenage girls), starting with collections of loose socks. Ms. Otomo decided to try her hand at designing fashion for the popular and trendsetting Shibuya 109.

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Shibuya

Shibuya

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