The Economist (US), June 8th, 1991
FORGET cars and electronic wizardry for the moment. The new surprise that Japan has for the world is farm products. A keenly competitive industry is in the making. Japanese farmers are producing four times as much livestock as they did in the 1960s. Their dairy farms today are as big as those in the European Community, and yielding a third more milk. Beef producers not only operate successfully at home--the southern parts of Kyushu and Hokkaido are the most favoured--but have copied the car makers, setting up farms in Australia and America.
These are early days. A few luxury items (Wagyu be...
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