Reading this article, I was I itially surprised to read to Japan had to import raw material given their strong paper tradition (shoji , washi, origami, etc.). B

Reading this article, I was I itially surprised to read to Japan had to import raw material given their strong paper tradition (shoji , washi, origami, etc.). But then the article states that > Shrinking rural populations and climate change were driving Japan’s farmers to abandon their labor-intensive plots. Makes sense to try to conserve this resource somehow.