YAMADA, Masaru is a senior staff writer with the Japan Agricultural News. Born in Tokyo, Japan, he joined the paper in 1977. He was a visiting scholar at University of Florida, and Texas A&M university in 1993-94.Some part of his coverage were also covered by US journalists. See follows:
"These days our [Japanese] farmers are facing many difficulties, the same as you are facing. In some ways we have some similarities in our ways of thinking. But we do have some big differences. Believe it or not our farmers farm less than three acres.” (Baffalo News)
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/668843.html
"As a journalist from a country with more than thousands of years of farming history, I am very, very glad to know U.S. farmers are trying to maintain family farming"(Lancaster News)
http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/237910
Followings are stories on US family farmers whom YAMADA, and SOMEYA with the Japan Agricultural News, visited during May 5, 2009 through May 15.
The Japan Agricultural News carried the installation tittled "Another American Farming" from May 12 through May 21 in the front page.
It is a series of focusing on American family farmers who are trying to farm and to make ends meet by cooperation with the rural communities.
The newspaper is an agricultural daily with a circulation of 365,000.
Mr. YAMADA, Masaru can be reached yamada.masaru(at)agrinews.co.jp
May 12
This first story is on the green market of Union Square in NY.
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May 13
This second story is on a farmer in NJ, and a farm in Brooklyn NY.
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May 15
This third story is on farmers and auctions in Lancaster PA.
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May 16
This fourth story is on dairy farmers in Lancaster PA. One of them is a farmer who runs B&B, saying he might not be able to survive without income from B&B, especially in such tough conditions in the dairy industry.
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May 19
This fifth story is on farmers in Niagara, NY.
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May 20
This sixth story is on a Church who encourages people to farm in abandoned land in Detroit, and farmers near Ann Arbor MI. It also includes LOCAVORIOS, a CSA company selling local frozen food.
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