Fukushima
After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the evacuation orders in the Fukushima Prefecture towns of Okuma and Namie were partially lifted.
The new buildings are being built and the residents are back.
JFOODO or The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center has appointed, Rebekah Wilson Lye, a researcher to study Japan’s culture and tradition.
Researcher, Rebekah Wilson Lye said, I am here At Manabiya Yumenomori School to learn about this wonderful project which just started in August this year.
GM, Manabiya Yumenomori, Ippei Nango said, A good point is to create a very inclusive community. In this school, many people originally lived in Okuma-town and came back from the evacuation area, but there are also people who moved here. The school slogan is Here you will start individual personality. Student’s design is printed on the bag and commercialized.
She visits Namie Star-Fallen Farm to meet organizer Mr. Daiju Takahashi. Starfish is fertilizer and protection against animals. In Conversation with Daiju Takahashi, Rebekah Wilson Lye said, I guess in some ways you’re a little bit of an outsider coming into this community. How is the cooperation and reaction being from local residents?
Organiser of Namie Star-Fallen Farm, Daiju Takahashi said, It’s been a great experience for me. People who have come back here, the local people, they are amazingly open, open-minded and welcoming for those outsiders like me. We are growing root beets and also indigo dye plants and very rare plants like a juniper berry or agave tequila, which haven’t been grown in Japan ever.
