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The massive Anpo protests against revision of the America–Japan Security Treaty are the largest protests in Japan's modern history, and force the resignation of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the cancellation of a planned visit by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1964: 1 October
Kagome Co., Ltd. (カゴメ株式会社, Kagome Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of tomato-based foods, and fruit and vegetable juices. [2] Its core product is the Yasai Seikatsu 100 brand of vegetable juice, introduced in 1995. [1] [3] It also claims to be Japan's largest supplier of tomato ketchup and tomato juice. [1]
Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. [17] [18] [19] According to Frank, [20]
This is a list of countries by tomato production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for tomatoes in 2022 was 186,107,972 metric tonnes , a decrease of 1.7% from 189,281,485 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
In 2018, Japan produced 9.7 million tons of rice (13th largest producer in the world), 3.6 million tons of sugar beet (used to produce sugar and ethanol), 1.2 million tons of sugarcane (used to produce sugar and ethanol), 208 thousand tons of persimmon (4th largest producer in the world), 2.3 million tons of potatoes, 1.3 million tons of cabbage, 1.6 million tons of onion, 773 thousand tons of ...
Kikkoman is the most popular brand of soy sauce in Japan [4] [7] and the United States. [8] [7] The city of Düsseldorf, Germany, is the European headquarters of the company. [9] A plant in Sappemeer, Netherlands, began operations in 1997 and now produces over 400 million litres of soy sauce per year. [10]
Tomato plants are vines, becoming decumbent, and can grow up to 3 m (9.8 ft); bush varieties are generally no more than 100 cm (3 ft 3 in) tall. They are tender perennials, often grown as annuals. [40] [41] Tomato plants are dicots. They grow as a series of branching stems, with a terminal bud at the tip that does the actual growing.
Current tomato Indeterminate Regular leaf Ostensibly from the original wild tomato from Mexico. They are smaller than most cherry tomato types. [88] Micro Tom Red 50–60 1 oz Cherry Micro Determinate Regular Leaf Considered world's smallest tomato, Micro Tom is a cultivar used mainly in laboratory experiments [89] Millionaire Pink 80–85 Heirloom