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Japanese Electronic Firms Turn to High-Tech Farming

Facing stiff competition from their Chinese and Korean counterparts, Japanese electronic companies are putting idle factories to new use: farming.  Shuttered facilities that used to produce floppy disks or more recently, micro-chips, are now growing produce in high-tech sterilized conditions.   The Wall Street Journal reports that Fujitsu is selling lettuce from a plant in…