The Tradition of Rice Planting
May 28th 2006 Yesterday I had a very cultural day in Japan. We went to a small town somewhere close to either Miyoshi, Midori, or Takamiya (not really sure where we were) to plant rice the traditional way. Although rice fields are now planted by machine in Japan, the traditional method is still used for one field per town. The tradtitional way of planting rice in Japan is by hand, with females planting to
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