Yamagata Prefecture Seeks Suitors
March 9th, 2010
Yamagata prefecture is more than pristine mountains and hotsprings; it has agricultural products for discriminate foreign buyers.
Thus, Japan has often been associated with being an exporter of high-valued consumer goods and an importer of only goods not available domestically.
Clearly, private educational institutions wishing to locate in major urban areas will find it significantly easier to make the investment decision under the new guidelines. And for institutions wishing to find true bargains, several outlying regions will be more than willing to lend land on the cheap in order to revitalize such areas.
Opportunity 2 and 3 could easily compliment each other. That paradigm, however, is quickly becoming history. Japanese regional food specialties are finding increasingly profitable markets, especially in the Asian region.
Several remote regions of Japan are shipping fish, sea urchins and assorted other local delicacies to hungry buyers abroad. If you are looking for peaches, cherries and La France pears, then Yamagata Prefecture is waiting for your business.
The Tohoku Region of Japan where Yamagata is located is offering local delicacies and juicy fruits from six prefectures. Take advantaged of this government-sponsored drive to increase food exports from the paltry 331 million yen at present to one trillion yen by 2013.
Many Asian countries which don’t have English as the language of business are turning to the Philippines as a training ground. Over 800 such schools and institutions in the Philippines now cater to the growing demand for low-cost English-language training.
A lot of people, stressed by overworking and hectic lifestyles in Japan’s crowded metropolitan areas, are yearning for their rural or agrarian roots.