Yes, it shouldJapan agonises over joining a possibly radical free-trade area IT TAKES a minute or two to work out what is refreshingly odd about Hideki Shimazaki's lettuce farm in Nagano on Japan's main island. Then it dawns: all the workers are 20- or 30-somethings, with the same lop-sided grins and earthy jokes common to young farmers elsewhere in the world. In Japan, this is incongruous. Most f
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