The life of 25-year-old Ayaka Tanaka is busy, to say the least.As the head of a fast-growing organic rose producer, Tanaka routinely checks her farms on the outskirts of Tokyo, picks rose petals herself at harvest time and meets prospective clients during her days in the Japanese capital. She does all that while studying economics at university and taking English lessons with an eye on her business' future overseas expansion.Rose Labo Co., with slightly more than a dozen employees, has been producing edible organic roses at a 3,300-square-meter farm in Fukaya since it was established in Sai…READ FULL ARTICLE
