The idea has caught Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's eye at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is stirring worries about job security and social inequality.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - When the coronavirus outbreak caused rice and instant noodles to disappear from supermarket shelves in Tokyo this year, Kaoru Okada, 36, decided to leave the capital because he was worried about food security.
FILE PHOTO: People cross a street in front of Shinjuku station, a normally crowded street during the weekend, after the government expanded a state of emergency to include the entire country last week following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan, April 19, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
Okada settled in the central Japanese city of Saku, Nagano prefecture, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of Tokyo, maintaining his online retail and export business while growing vegetables in shared farms and threshing rice.
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Jiji Dec 11, 2020
Kobe – A theme park on an island in western Japan will open an attraction featuring popular role-playing video game series Dragon Quest next spring, its operator said Thursday.
The attraction at the Nijigen no Mori theme park on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture will let visitors enjoy going on an adventure in the reproduced world of Dragon Quest.
Nijigen Nomori Co., the park’s operator, said the attraction will be built in an area of some 8,000 square meters, using rich nature and digital imaging.