Article 2B4Y8 Japan's post-tsunami recovery plan: tomatoes, fish and hula-dancing

Japan's post-tsunami recovery plan: tomatoes, fish and hula-dancing

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Jane Dudman
from Environment | The Guardian on (#2B4Y8)

Six years after the Fukushima disaster, local government is working with private firms in one Japanese city to rebuild its economy

It's a cold January day in Iwaki City, 211km north of Tokyo. But here, in a balmy glasshouse, light and sunny, pop music is being piped in, and tonnes of tomatoes are ripening and being picked.

They're not in the ground; they're being grown from waist-high pots of coconut matting. These are no ordinary tomatoes. They are growing on Wonder Farm, an "integrated agricultural theme park", run by Tomato Land Iwaki, which is part-funded by the local city council and the Fukushima prefecture.

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