Residency Fukue Island and the Go…
Goto Islands Farming and Fishing Life Experience
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A life with both sea and field. The Goto Islands of Nagasaki are a scattering of more than a hundred and forty islands in the East China Sea, where the way of life called hannou-hangyo, half-farming and half-fishing, still survives. In the morning you go out to sea and catch fish; at midday you till the field. From both sea and soil, you draw your food. You are not bound to a single trade; you live in step with nature's rhythm. That is the island's way. The city demands efficiency, specialization in one thing, but the island is different: many things, a little of each. In recent years, drawn to this life, more people are relocating, some doing remote work while also going out to fish, a new form taking shape. There are trial programs; first, stay a short while, and soak yourself in island time. An island that seems to have nothing, yet has everything.