A farmer takes care of dried persimmons at her house on the outskirts of the eastern coastal city of Gangneung on Oct. 31, ...

Production peaks in autumn, when visitors can view the fruit hanging like curtains on the eaves of private houses. The persimmons are dried in the sun for about a month and shipped from mid ...

His workshop produces up to 2,000 semi-dried persimmons a day. The fruit is peeled by machine and hung on ropes, with 20 persimmons per rope. Then they are fumigated with sulfur for about half an ...

SHIKA, Japan >> The production of koro-gaki specialty dried persimmons is reaching its peak in Shika, Ishikawa prefecture. Producer Yoshitsugu Yamazui’s processing shed was partially destroyed ...