Apr 16

NYTimes: Young Japanese head to inaka for work

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Interesting article in today’s NY Times about how a lot of young Japanese adults are heading to the inaka to work on farms.  This simultaneously helps with some of the unemployment in Japan and also helps replace a lot of the aging farm workforce and perhaps even in terms of improving inefficient farming processes.

Demographic shifts also tend to have other consequences as well.  I wonder if any current JETs out there are seeing this trend first hand.  And I wonder if there might be any impact on the JET experience or even the JET Program in some way over time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/global/16farmer.html?emc=eta1