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Nanbei Chiri wo Sake Yushutsu Taikoku ni Kaeta Nihonjintachi
(The Japanese who Changed Chile into a Great Salmon-Exporting Country)
Author: Akio Hosono
Publishing Date: July, 2010
Publisher: Diamond, Inc.
Language: Japanese
192 pages
ISBN code: 9784478059944
In this book, the author documents the impact of the JICA technical cooperation project, the "Japan-Chile Salmon Project (Chile Aquaculture Project)" that was launched in the 1970's. The author illustrates how Chile, having never been a natural habitat of salmon, has grown to be one of the top salmon-exporting countries in the world, ranked on-par with Norway in what is known as the "Salmon Industry Miracle."
What grew into a long-term project began in 1969 through a chance encounter between a Chilean, Pablo Aguilera, training at a Hokkaido salmon hatchery of the Japan Fisheries Agency, and a Japanese fishery technician, Aliaky Nagasawa. This meeting changed the two men's lives greatly, and from that point forward, the two became a driving force in creating a new industry in Chile. Conceived through a chance encounter, the project spawned many brilliant Chilean technicians through the enthusiasm and endeavors of those involved, and proved extremely fruitful in results.
The project has flourished for approximately two decades, suffering only occasional setbacks such as the 1973 coup d'état which suspended the project for some time. In Chile, during these past few decades, as the salmon farming industry burgeoned in scale, raw materials and service providers began to emerge one after another, spurring the establishment of related industries. As a result, the salmon industry created wide-scale job opportunities and greatly contributed to raising income levels of the poor. As a precedent for contribution to the improvement of socio-economic issues of a country through the establishment and development of a new industry, the project has commanded international acclamation.
(This book is available only in Japanese.)