It’s cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: shimogoe or “fertiliser from a person’s bottom” is finding new favour in Japan ... and it is helping farmers cut soaring costs ...

After the bones were discovered in a Toyohashi quarry in 1957 and 1959, they were reported to represent rare examples of Late Pleistocene human remains ... the now-falsified finding helped energize ...

The Consulate General of Japan in Davao has provided a grant to the Balutakay Coffee Farmers Cooperative (BACOFA) in Bansalan, Davao del Sur, to improve their coffee processing facilities. This will ...

However, small scale farmers grapple with the dual ... The Government of Japan launched the Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects (GGP) in the Philippines in 1989 to reduce ...