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Japan’s Mesmerizing Tree Circles Are the Result of a 50-Year Experiment
A cedar forest in Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture is home to a couple of unusual crop circle-like patterns that are clearly not random in nature.
Photos of the bizarre patterns, which are visible only from above, made their way on the internet about three years ago and fueled all kinds of conspiracy theories that involved everything from aliens to secret government experiments. Well, that second one turned out to be quite close to the truth, only the experiments weren’t secret, and they weren’t conducted by some obscure outfit, but by Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Back in 1973 an area of land near Nichinan City was designated as “experimental forestry” and the results of that experiment are visible today.
From booze to bioenergy: Japanese factory to convert waste from shochu production into fuel Today 05:01 am JST Today | 06:58 am JST TOKYO
Anabuki Housing Service Corporation, a condominium management company, held an inauguration ceremony on April 7 for its Shochu Bioenergy Miyazaki Nichinan Plant in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture.
Since 2014, the company has been working closely with the University of Miyazaki in a public-private collaboration to refine ethanol for biofuel from the waste generated in the process of making shochu, a type of distilled alcohol famous in Miyazaki Prefecture. In so doing, they have aimed at solving the problem of processing shochu waste.