Fukushima Peaches
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I don't understand the peeling thing. Everything peeled, apples, persimmons, peaches, even grapes. And when it comes to watermelons the waste is very high... only the red flesh is eaten, don't dare go near the white edges.
Fukushima, Aug. 8 (Jiji Press)--A chorus of praises has been showered on peaches grown in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, by foreign nationals who enjoyed the fruit while visiting Japan for the Tokyo Olympics, with their love for the delicacy being disseminated throughout the world through social media.
.mw-parser-output .oo-ui-icon-unesco{background-image:url(" ")}.mw-parser-output .oo-ui-icon-star{background-image:url(" -featured.svg")}.mw-parser-output .oo-ui-icon-ftt{background-image:url(" _Circle.svg/25px-Writing_Circle.svg.png")}.mw-parser-output .oo-ui-icon-dotm{background-image:url(" _Check_Circle.svg/25px-Yes_Check_Circle.svg.png")}.mw-parser-output .oo-ui-icon-otbp{background-image:url(" _turn_icon_blue.svg/25px-Right_turn_icon_blue.svg.png")}Fukushima (福島) is the capital city of Fukushima Prefecture in Honshu, Japan in the Fukushima Basin and its surrounding parts. Fukushima prefecture is the third biggest prefecture in Japan (13,782.54 km²). Known for its fruit production, Fukushima is particularly proud of their peaches, but pears and apples and persimmons are also grown. Fukushima is called peach city, because it produces the most peaches in Japan.
Fukushima is renowned for its delicious fruits, and a wide variety of direct-sale farmer's fruit stalls, 30 minute all-you-can pick tourist orchards, and other fruit attractions can be found among the vast fruit fields and orchards that line the "Fruit Line," which is the nickname for a road that runs for 14 km along the base of Mt. Azuma, and the "Peach Line (National Road 13)," which runs along the train tracks. Come and enjoy the bounty of cherries, peaches, Japanese pears, grapes, and apples of Fukushima City, known as the Fruit Kingdom of Japan!
Fukushima is one of the top peach producing regions in Japan. Visit one of the following orchards to taste some of the juiciest and most delicious peaches in the world. These orchards are available for peach picking from late July to mid-September. Dates and times may change depending on seasonal weather and availability of fruit.
As sort of return receipts for the peaches, I took photos of the people who received them to upload on SNS. I named them Fukushima peach ambassadors (without their permissions). After distributing them to PR reps and journalists from around the world, there was no more left.
I got responses from other foreign press reporters making far-fetched requests to have the peaches delivered to the main press center set up in Tokyo Big Sight. It was also a precious experience to interact with other foreign reporters with whom I had previously no communication.
Good food makes people happy. I think many people understood why Coach Eriksen could eat six peaches. One American reporter said he could also go for six. I hope he tells people in his country about the peaches.
Thank you to the reporters, PR reps, staff, and volunteers from the U.S., Britain, Italy, Ecuador, China, France, Canada, Kenya, Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, and others for happily taking the peach and enjoying them. Thank you to the farmers who grew the delicious peaches, and those that sent us the peaches. Thank you to my friend from New York.
Yellow peaches are produced in smaller quantities nationwide than ordinary red-skinned peaches. Among them, Fukushima Prefecture has a good reputation as one of the best quality in the nationwide market.
Its deliciousness is not surprisingly known, but once you taste it, you will be captivated. The sweet scent and the elegant sweetness of a mixture of peach and mango are outstanding. The texture of the peach is perfect for the expression "melting". The yellow peaches that have been ripened to the last minute are juicy and the water drips from the peeling knife.
Vice News has published a video on YouTube that follows two farmers from the Fukushima Prefecture, Noboru Saito and Koji Furuyama. Saito, who grows many different crops on his farm, says that the rice grown in the area is consistently rated as the best. Furuyama specializes in peaches and explains his strategy to deal with the stigma of selling fruit from Fukushima: grow the best peaches in the world.
Fukushima Prefecture is Japan's orchard king, producing all sorts of fruit, including apples, Asian pears, peaches and grapes. The FruiTea Fukushima is a "traveling café," created around the concept of an elegant space for enjoying uniquely crafted desserts and beverages made from local Fukushima fruit while gazing out the train windows or engaging in conversation.
We report the impact of radiocesium released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident on fruit trees in the vicinity. Specifically, we discuss our findings related to the absorption and translocation of radiocesium in peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) trees because peaches are a major crop in Fukushima Prefecture.
Annual peach production in Japan is approximately 170,000 tons, the majority of which is intended for fresh consumption. Given the high demand for peaches for table consumption and as gifts, they fetch relatively high prices. Peaches are among the major commodities produced in Fukushima Prefecture, where the annual peach production was valued at ten billion JPY and accounted for approximately 1/5th of the total peach production in Japan in 2010. However, there have only been a few attempts to understand the migration of radionuclides in peach trees. Therefore, there is an urgent need to clarify the impact of radionuclides on peach trees.
Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, surveys and cultivation experiments have been conducted to investigate the migration of radiocesium in peaches and other fruit trees in Fukushima and Tokyo. Based on information derived from these investigations, the factors related to radiocesium translocation and pathways of absorption by fruit trees in the year of the nuclear accident have been reported in this paper in addition to brief descriptions of ongoing investigations.
In the containers in which the soil was covered, the radiocesium level in the surface soil layer was approximately 1/7th of that in the uncovered soil and below the detection limit in the deeper soil (Table 14.1). We attributed the detection of radiocesium in the surface soil of the covered containers to the relatively porous cover used to cover the soil because of the low flood tolerance of peaches. We also detected radiocesium with an unknown isotopic composition in surface soil from another part of the experimental field covered with the same fabric, which led us to believe that radiocesium could pass through the covering material, albeit in small quantities. Next, we examined the concentration of radiocesium in different plant parts (Table 14.2). Because we did not observe any differences in the radiocesium concentrations in any of the above-ground plant parts between trees grown in covered and uncovered containers, we concluded that the amount of radiocesium absorbed by the trees through the above-ground plant parts greatly exceeded that absorbed from the soil, at least in the year of the accident. In addition, we did not detect radiocesium in the roots of trees grown in covered or uncovered containers. Thus, we concluded that it was unlikely that the root uptake of radiocesium deposited on the soil surface had a significant role under natural conditions. In addition, the results clearly indicated that the majority of the radiocesium detected in trees was absorbed through the above-ground tree parts during the year of the accident.
A comparison of the radiocesium concentrations in the pulp and pericarps of peaches produced in (Takata et al. 2012b) the year of the nuclear accident (2011) and 2012 (Takata et al. 2012a) showed that the ratio of the pericarp radiocesium concentration relative to the pulp radiocesium concentration was higher in 2011 than in 2012. Based on these results, we suggest that greater quantities of radiocesium were deposited on the surfaces of fruits in 2011, thereby creating conditions where radiocesium could be more readily absorbed into the pericarp itself. Thus, it is possible that secondary deposition on new plant parts occurred for at least the first few months following the accident. A comparison of the radiocesium concentrations of the leaves growing on succulent shoots and the shoots of bearing branches (Takata et al. 2012b, 2013) showed that the radiocesium concentration in the leaves of vigorously growing succulent shoots was lower than that in the leaves of shoots on bearing branches, which ceased elongating early in the fruit growth period. There are two potential explanations for these results. First, it is possible that the redeposition of radiocesium on new leaves occurred up to the point when the shoots on the bearing branches stopped elongating (ostensibly in June). While this is difficult to verify, it is possible that the radiocesium existed as a readily soluble ion and that it was redeposited on leaves and fruits by rain. A second possibility is that, unlike potassium, radiocesium undergoes differential fractionation within peach trees, depending on factors such as the plant part age and growth conditions. Potassium and cesium appear to have similar behaviors in terms of root uptake (Ehlken and Kirchner 2002), but the two elements may be translocated differently in the above-ground plant parts. For example, it has been shown that cesium, unlike potassium, tends to accumulate in the older leaves in rice (Tsumura et al. 1984). Thus, with respect to the distribution of radiocesium, it was necessary to carefully examine the differences in redeposition and translocation.
Fukushima was once an important farming stronghold serving east Japan, with a strategic highway connected to Tokyo. However, seven years after the earthquake and ensuing nuclear disaster, farmers have been forced to sell below market prices and in some cases hide the Fukushima name from packaging. Professor Kayo Tajima, an urban economist at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, says before the accident Fukushima was famous for high-end farm produce, but the region lost its social value and brand power in the top end market after the accident. She says, in particular, that while Fukushima peaches were a symbolic specialty gift, the specter of radioactive contamination made peaches a touch-and-go gift idea. 2b1af7f3a8