Far from her native Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, a Japanese woman is helping revitalize a rural community in Vietnam through an unlikely business: exporting lychee juice.Ari Yamasaki and her husband, Pham Van Nhan, are busy turning lychees, a taste of early summer in northern Vietnam, into juice for export to Japan.On LaLa-Lycheee farm, lychees are harvested only once a year and spoil easily when fresh. The couple initially lacked freezers for storage but have since diversified the business by producing juice, while using crowdfunding and working to improve local livelihoods.Yamasaki …READ FULL ARTICLE
