Forty young Japanese men and women have completed a two-week seminar on cooperation at the Afro-Asian Institute here and will go to work in four Israeli kibbutzim. This was the ninth special seminar conducted by the Institute for Japanese groups who come to Israel every year under the auspices of the Japan Kibbutz Movement. The kibbutz movement in Japan is comprised of some 20 kibbutzim. Most of them are a spontaneous outgrowth of efforts at cooperative farming, in part prompted by a shortage of land and its division into tiny plots. The Japanese said Israel’s kibbutzim can offer some solutions to satisfy their longing for social change.
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