The craft flew over a 1000-square-meter rice paddy, scattering seeds treated beforehand ... Alarmed by the prospect of Japan’s agriculture vanishing, Takamoto decided to join hands with Nobeoka ...

“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 ...

In mountainous areas, most farms cover less than two acres and are cultivated for personal use, while farms in the plains tend to grow rice for sale on slightly larger plots. “As a Japanese ...

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 ...

In a rice field in Niigata prefecture, Japan, a small robot trundles along on big orange wheels, navigating a ridge edging the paddy while hacking away at weeds. This compact machine’s work is ...

Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it is one of the ... between hackerfarm and Digital Garage in Japan. I was contacted by one of the heads of FutureLab ...

Toyota's plans to build a new technical center and test track only 30 miles from its Aichi, Japan headquarters has ... to deforest 691 acres, fill the rice paddies and flatten mountains.