• January 7, 2025

Savor the seven-herb rice porridge slowly

January 7th (Tuesday), 2025 January 7th is known as "Seven Herbs Day," and on this day people eat rice porridge containing the seven spring herbs—water dropwort, shepherd's purse, gogyo (Japanese laurel wort), chickweed, henbit, turnip, and Japanese radish—to ward off evil spirits and pray for good health. The young spring herbs are said to be good for the stomach and intestines […]

  • January 6, 2025

[Agri-Fighter North Dragon (Hokuryu Town, Hokkaido) Appears!] [Special Feature] Local Heroes from Around the Country: Food and Agriculture on Our Shoulders [Japan Agricultural News]

On Monday, January 6, 2025, the Nihon Nogyo Shimbun, an internet site operated by the Nihon Nogyo Shimbun (Tokyo), published an article titled “[Special Feature] Local Heroes from Around the Country: Food and Agriculture on Our Shoulders” (dated January 1). We would like to introduce it to you.