FEATURE: Supermarkets, corporations wage campaigns to promote vegetables
December 27, 2005Japanese corporations and business organizations are following the example of the United States in movements to encourage their employees and customers to eat more than 350 grams of vegetables and more than 200 grams of fruits a day. The original ''5 A DAY'' drive designed to promote better health was launched jointly by the industrial, academic and governmental sectors in the United States in 1990.
FEATURE: Pigs feed on ''shochu'' dregs
December 27, 2005Industry and university researchers attempting new ways to make use of the dregs created in the distillation process of ''shochu'' have come up with turning it into soap and feeding it to pigs. Hiroshi Kawaida, a 62-year-old training manager at the agriculture improvement and extension center in the town of Aira, Kagoshima Prefecture, mixes the remnants from shochu production into feed for pigs.