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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enclosed by mesh fences and walls sits a lone rice paddy stretching out across 1,100 ... engineered to combat hay fever associated with Japanese cedar pollen. Hay fever is caused by allergies ...