Explore the fascinating process of persimmon harvesting in Japan, where farmers blend tradition with innovation to produce high-quality dried persimmons. See the precision involved in picking each ...

When I think of autumn in Japan, I think of chestnuts, matsutake mushrooms and persimmons. Persimmons were known to the ancient Greeks as the “fruit of the gods”, and with good reason.

However, it might not have become Japan's national fruit had it not been imported from China in the seventh century, where it has already thrived for millennia. Today, most persimmons grown in the ...

Wakayama Prefecture is Japan’s largest persimmon producer, and this area is the largest producer of kushi-gaki (persimmons on skewers). Kushi-gaki are made by drying peeled persimmons on bamboo ...

They turn yellow or orange when ripe. While persimmons are native to the Hoosier state, they don’t grow solely in Indiana; they also thrive in China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Spain and ...

Asian pears, grapes, persimmons and chestnuts in autumn. Apples and mandarin oranges in winter. Japan is blessed with mouthwatering seasonal fruit throughout the year. And yet, fruit consumption ...