For Young Japanese, It’s Back to the Farm

Courtesy NYT > Business  Wed, 04/15/2009 - 11:29

A pilot program, part of a Japanese stimulus package, aims to fill a rural labor shortage while creating jobs for the nation’s underemployed.


 

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