Farmers must incessantly weed rice paddies to maintain water flow through the terraces. Rice ... in Southeast Asia as a paddy crop watered by monsoon rains and floodwater. All told, some 358 ...

Almost 400 square kilometres of rice terraces, which they have been cultivating for 2,000 years, are spread across the historic landscape. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1995 ...

Illuminations are a popular winter event all across Japan, and one of the more unusual spectacles this year is this massive light-up of rice terraces in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture. Located in the ...