A grape variety called Shine Muscat is helping to change perceptions that farming isn’t lucrative, say officials in Yamanashi Prefecture. That may explain a surge in new mostly young farmers to ...

Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.

But it was not the end for Korean grape farmers. In 2006, they began to improve their grape strains by importing Shine Muscat seedlings from Japan, and by 2017, they started exporting to China.