Tonight's episode of "A House in the Middle of Nowhere" follows the life of a couple who raise 70 Wagyu cattle on a ranch. | MANTANWEB(まんたんウェブ)

Tonight's episode of "A House in the Middle of Nowhere" follows the life of a couple who raise 70 Wagyu cattle on a ranch.

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9月21日放送の「ポツンと一軒家」の一場面(C)ABCテレビ
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9月21日放送の「ポツンと一軒家」の一場面(C)ABCテレビ

"A House in the Middle of Nowhere" (ABC TV/TV Asahi, Sunday 7:58 pm) is a variety show that uses satellite photos to find a remote house. The September 21st broadcast will focus on the life of a couple who run a beef cattle farm on a ranch in Hokkaido.

The guests are violinist Taro Hakase and entertainer Shizuka Nakamura. Hakase is interested in living alone, saying, "My hobby is fishing, so I'd like to try living a life of farming and reading on a small island."

The search team arrived at the village, more than an hour and a half's drive from the airport. After looking at satellite photos, one resident declared, "We often came to this area (around the house) with our hunting club. A couple runs a ranch here. There's no doubt about it."

The search team's vehicle left the village and drove along a road that ran along the gentle slope of the mountainside. It was a single road through a seemingly endless forest. Far beyond the forest, they came across a building that resembled a cowshed on a vast plot of land and a stylish black residence. They were greeted by the 58-year-old husband and 66-year-old wife who run the ranch.

The search party was given the opportunity to see the working conditions at the ranch. The vast 15-hectare site (the size of three Tokyo Domes) includes a calving barn and a rearing barn, where the husband and wife are currently raising around 70 head of cattle. The beef they ship is a local specialty, Wagyu beef, which "is characterized by the concentrated flavor of the meat due to the cold winter weather."

On this day, the mother cow and her calves were to be separated, and the search team was allowed to be present. The program follows the husband and wife team as they take care of the cows 24 hours a day, following their hectic yet peaceful life. Guest Nakamura commented in the studio, "Their real life was conveyed without any exaggeration, and both the difficulty and the charm were conveyed as they were. There was a lot I didn't know, so I learned a lot."

This site uses machine translation. Please note that it may not always be accurate and may differ from the original Japanese text.

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