Carrying the memory the Earth has nurtured
to space and the future.
Japan’s core agricultural workforce—around 2.4 million in 2000—had fallen to about 1.02 million by 2025*1. At this pace it is projected to reach roughly 360,000 by 2050*2. Japanese agriculture stands squarely at the edge of collapse.
And climate change is compounding the pressure. Globally, for every 1°C of warming, wheat yields are estimated to fall by roughly 6%, maize by 7%, and rice by 3% (without adaptation measures)*4. In Japan, heat damage to rice (chalky, immature grains) already affected 50–60% of growing areas in western Japan and 30–40% in eastern Japan for the 2024 crop*5. In 2024 the global mean temperature reached +1.55°C above pre-industrial levels—the first single year on record to exceed 1.5°C*6. The “Japanese food” we know is beginning to change.
*1 MAFF, “Statistics on Agricultural Labor” / “Overview of the 2025 Census of Agriculture and Forestry” *2 JA-Zenchu, “On the Situation Surrounding JA Management” *3 Same census *4 Zhao, C. et al. (2017) PNAS *5 MAFF, “FY2024 Report on the Impacts of Global Warming” *6 WMO Press Release
Passing on to the next era the lineage of life that has walked alongside humanity—
our “Noah’s Ark = MUGEN FARM.”
We carry into the future the vegetables long loved in Japan—“the Earth’s memory worth preserving”—through the device of hydroponic technology.
Respect for vegetables and the life they nurture. Soil, water, forest, light. Grounded in gratitude for all that sustains life, we will take root in society an “open agriculture” that anyone can carry on.