Elderlies Run Decorative Foliage Business In Rural Japan

KAMIKATSU, JAPAN - NOVEMBER 17: Freshly picked maple leaves placed for photograph on November 17, 2016 in Kamikatsu, Japan. In Kamikatsu, the mountainous town of Tokushima prefecture in western Japan, approximately 400 farmers of age older than 60, many are women, run their own business of commercializing the colored leaves used to decorate the Japanese traditional food. They sell 329 types of colored leaves utilizing the PC and tablet devices for local, national and overseas Japanese restaurants. The shipment value of colored leaves from Kamikatsu town was 260,300,000JPY (approx. 2,582,000US$) in year 2015. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)