Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture has started trials of soil-decomposable paper agricultural mulch sheets to eliminate plastic waste and protect crops from extreme summer heatwaves. The initiative began in April 2026 with a gradual rollout across local...
Fewer than 10 sudare workshops remain in Kyoto today. A sudare is a screen of reed or split bamboo, hung outside a window through the summer, where it catches the sun and lets the wind pass, leaving the room behind it three or four degrees cooler...
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