LA CORONILLA, Uruguay -- Shigenao Tamura was 22 in 1995, fresh out of Hiroshima University with a degree in agronomy.
He had never left Japan but was keen to learn about farming practices overseas. So when he was offered a one-year unpaid position at a Japanese family-owned farm called Agridiamond in Uruguay, he packed his bags and traveled more than 19,000 kilometers to La Coronilla, a sleepy oceanside farming town on the Atlantic coast.
