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As family farms disappear, firms see new growth in vacant cropland

Photo taken July 7, 2016 in a suburb of Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, shows Shigeru Yajima, president of Morishige Bussan Co., looking at perilla plants grown from seeds in a vinyl greenhouse run by the food wholesaler in the city of Saitama near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hydroponic farm aims to make perilla new local specialty

A worker checks on leaves of perilla, also known as wild sesame, at a hydroponic greenhouse farm using light-emitting diodes in Toyama, central Japan, on July 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hydroponic farm aims to make perilla new local specialty

Yusuke Takado of an agricultural corporation in Toyama, central Japan, shows its products such as perilla leaves and oil made from perilla seeds on July 22, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo