The work is backbreaking and relentless, and in Japan and other Asian countries where farmers tend terraced paddies, it is also muddy. Paddy rice is irrigated by water diverted from rivers and ...

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 ...

An agriculture ministry report released in July showed paddy rice yields in Japan are projected to decline about 20% by 2100 compared to the previous century. The ministry said shifting to high ...

For straw "subote" sparklers whose tips are covered in gunpowder, Tsutsui uses straw from his own rice paddy. For the "nagate" ones which wrap the gunpowder in paper, Japanese paper of just the ...

“Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in the ...

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 ...

New-crop rice has appeared in Japanese supermarkets, but has failed to alleviate steep and continued inflation...Read More ...

Japan's rice wholesalers are taking drastic action ... with farmers who are yet to even plant the seeds. The operator of a paddy north of Tokyo says many buyers are in haggle mode for rice that ...