Hemp Car Tours
The car is touring through JapanŐs 22 cities, frequenting environmental, traditional and hemp-legalization events. The car left the Northern Island, Hokkaido, on 28th April and has already traveled more than half of the 4,500-km total mileage. It is now in the Kanto area and will arrive at Kumamoto in Kyushu on 24th August 2002.
http://www.hemp.jp/
The group uses hemp [biodiesel] made from hemp seed oil, which was sponsored by New-age Trading and the Industrial hemp Club of Japan.
http://www.new-age-trading.com/
http://www.kansai-cc.co.jp/hemp/
The idea for the tour came from the hemp Car Trans America in 2001.
http://www.hempcar.org/
The Hemp car is followed by the ember from the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima http://www.otsukimi.net/walk/kokoro/index.html the Peace Fire [KOKORO], with the aim of spreading the wish of peace. They also distribute promotional hemp T-shirts too. http://www.partie.net/hpsa/index.shtml.
For more information, please contact
office@japanhemp.org