7 October, 2019
Fukushima Joban Products Fair Begins, Featuring Seafood Sent Directly to Restaurants in Tokyo-Yokohama Area
Since October 1, the Fukushima Joban Products Fair has been making people in the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area more aware of the tasty and appealing marine products produced in Fukushima Prefecture. The fair is sponsored by the prefecture as one of the several Fukushima Restoration and Revitalization Projects supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
In the fair, some twenty-five participating restaurants in Tokyo and Yokohama have created original dishes using fish and shellfish sent directly from the prefecture to boost consumer recognition of regional brands, known as Joban-mono in Japanese, and cultivate new sales channels.
According to data released in September by the Fisheries Agency, fishing ports in Fukushima that had been damaged by the massive March 2011 earthquake were able to restore their full unloading capabilities as early as 2017. Even so, the current quantity of products being handled by the Onahama Fish Market in Fukushima is only less than half of what it was the year before the earthquake happened, and their monetary value has fallen 39 percent. Efforts are still needed to not only restart fisheries operatio...more
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16 August, 2019
Two-day International Forum on Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi Focuses on Coexistence and Co-prosperity with Local Communities
On August 4 and 5, the 4th International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi took place in Fukushima Prefecture, sponsored by the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF).
The first day of the forum featured a dialogue-style workshop in Tomioka Town with local residents, as well as sessions with students. On the second day, the participants moved to Iwaki City, where experts and specialists from Japan and overseas conducted panel discussions under the theme of “Working in Partnership with Local Communities.”
A total of about 1,300 people participated during the two days, about half of them from Fukushima Prefecture.
At the opening of the second day, NDF Chairman Hajimu Yamana kicked off the discussions by mentioning the vigorous exchanges he had had with sixty high school students and local people the day before. He stressed the significance of the theme of the forum, and that decommissioning was a project being undertaken together with local communiti...more
