The work is backbreaking and relentless, and in Japan and other Asian countries ... allows water to flow continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy).

The ancient city in Japan is having an astonishing revival - and being entirely rebuilt using techniques dating back to 710 ...

High tech and age-old agricultural traditions are being used to reverse the decline in one of Japan’s top rice-growing ... situation in Niigata’s rice fields. It brings together farming ...

Rice paddies that lay fallow for decades in some of Japan’s most far-flung regions are now its hottest properties. As prices surge, these areas are discovering the truth to the old adage ...

This summer’s extreme heat has devastated the quality of rice, with the harvest of top-quality rice in Japan dropping to ... of the prefecture’s rice fields, the figure fell 76.6 percentage ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Farmers in a rice field at Mitunguu in South Imenti, Meru County. [Phares Mutembei ...

Filatova has a passion for painting Japanese rice paddies. "Painting the rice fields of Japan brought me peaceful emotions," she says. "I miss that so much." Draft paintings Filatova showed on ...

a research team in Japan aims to create a functional compost tailor-made for rice cultivation. Applying this microbe-rich compost to paddy fields could maximize yield, while reducing the need for ...

A 1,000-square-meter rice paddy field shows Ohtani wearing Japan’s national team uniform throwing a pitch in the World Baseball Classic this year. The two-way superstar of the Los Angeles Angels ...