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A Village in Kochi Will Pay You to Learn Yuzu Farming

¥162,500 a month while you train, and a mature producing orchard leased to you instead of saplings. The whole program, with every condition, the phone number, and the official sources.

¥162,500 a month during training, and ¥187,500 if you are 34 or under
A producing yuzu orchard leased to you, roughly 40 mature trees to every quarter acre
The village's own five-year farm accounts: ¥7,300,000 sales, ¥2,610,000 income after costs
Trial housing at ¥1,100 a day, so you can test a winter there before you commit
The four phone numbers, and a Japanese message you can copy and send today
Ten things the viral version gets wrong, plus the ¥5,000,000 nobody mentions
¥162,500 a month
2 years of training
1,274 people in the village
Official sources only
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A conditional municipal and prefectural training program with its own age, income and residence rules. Amounts, eligibility, intake dates and visa requirements can change. Residency in Japan is a separate decision made by immigration, and Mihara advertises training rather than visa sponsorship.

Photograph: Yuzu oranges by Nikita, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.