Yoshikazu Kawaguchi

Yoshikazu Kawaguchi
Kawaguchi in a production still from Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness
Born1939 (1939)
Died9 June 2023(2023-06-09) (aged 83–84)
NationalityJapanese
Occupation(s)Farmer, author, teacher
Known forNatural Farming methods

Yoshikazu Kawaguchi (川口由一, Kawaguchi Yoshikazu; 1939 – 9 June 2023) was the leading Japanese practitioner of the "natural farming" method popularized by Masanobu Fukuoka and farmed by this method in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture for 30 years. He was a farmer, author, and founder of the Akame Natural Farming School, or 赤目自然農塾 in Japanese.