Question: What’s the way to a more stable and sustainable Japan ? Some people talk about neo-automobiles, robots, and florescent light bulbs, all – mixed with organic farming. Others speak of eco-goods and eco-awareness, and even “eco-life”, all,...

Masanobu Fukuoka once wrote: “There is just a quarter-acre of arable land for each person in Japan. If each single person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acre to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family...

Situated on less than a 1/2 acre (4oo tsubo) of land — in between the Shonai River of East Nobi and the Kiso Three Rivers of West Nobi — lies Elwood Garてen, a homestead in the making .