Cannabis: the fiber of Japan

BY JON MITCHELL SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES

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Workers harvest cannabis at a licensed farm in Tochigi Prefecture. | JUNICHI TAKAYASU
 

When Junichi Takayasu was 3 years old, a picture book about ninjas changed his life forever. What fascinated him most, however, wasn’t the assassins’ stealthy skills or secret gadgets but their usage of a very special plant.

“The book showed how ninjas trained by jumping over cannabis plants,” Takayasu says. “Every day they had to leap higher and higher because cannabis grows very quickly. I was so amazed that I told my mom I wanted to grow cannabis when I was older.”

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