Around 6,000 bamboo lanterns were lit around rice paddies in Nagasaki on the night of Oct. 25 for observers to enjoy as part ...

Don’t miss Okunoin, Japan’s largest and most sacred cemetery, where stone lanterns and mausoleums hunker beneath giant cedar ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan. By ...

NAGOYA, Japan >> Aichi prefecture is striving to increase rice production amid high rice prices across Japan. But the prefecture faces a formidable threat from pests, whose damage is intensified by ...

TOKYO, June 9 (Reuters) - A Japanese mayor is seeking to rebuild his city into a renewable energy hub by placing solar panels on top of rice paddies that were devastated by the March earthquake and ...

Agriphotovoltaic (agriPV) or agrivoltaic rice paddy plant with a dual-axis, sun-tracking system developed in Miyada-mura, Nagano prefecture, Japan. PV panels can be tilted to minimize shading and ...

KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...