KAMIMOMI, Okayama Prefecture--In the remote village ... but farmers working among the paddy fields and ancient rice terraces say that climate change is hurting the harvest of rice, long a ...

Okayama Prefecture, known as the Land of Sunshine ... have restored a millennium-old terraced hillside with over 1,000 rice paddies. And finally, in an old post town we meet an artisan making ...

the festival encompassed venues across 12 municipalities in the northern part of Okayama Prefecture—mostly in and around the small towns of Tsuyama, Niimi, and Nagi—surrounded by the fields ...