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City life is too hard for the Tokyoites, so they're heading out to the farms
by Brad Rice, 05/20/2009

Sometimes the stress of life in an office environment is just a bit too much for the denizens of Tokyo. Suicide used to be a common option, but now that's being replaced by things like Akihabara's smashing place and now Marunouchi Morning University's program where Tokyoites pay $400 to learn how to farm.

Some of these people, sick of working in their various fields, are even considering giving up the office life for the daily toil of farming. It's interesting to see the fluctuation from a massive culture of office life in the 70s and 80s turn into a rejection of it -- more and more small businesses are being set up, some people are moving back to the countryside, and now I wonder if many of the family-run shops will find new life? Many of them had been dying out for a while, because kids no longer wanted to be stuck in family tradition.

Do you think you could ever find yourself working on your own farm, and give up on the pressures of the big city?

[Via Japan Probe]






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