Okinawan Pineapples See Fresh Competition from Taiwan

Pineapple farmer Azuma Kinzō harvests fruit from his fields in May 2021. (© Matsuda Yoshitaka)

Liao Jianfu (left) in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Fukumoto Shūgo)

Tamai Kamejirō in Hualien, Taiwan, in 1938. (Photo from Tamai Kamejirō kaikoroku [The Memoirs of Tamai Kamejirō].)

A truck selling pineapples in Yuanlin, Taiwan, in July 2013. (© Matsuda Yoshitaka)