The terrace builders lay down marking stone, so called because they will mark the boundary between the new terrace and the existing one. These stones, sometimes split from boulders manually and ...

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 ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering ... build the retaining walls and the excavated earth to level the terraces. Well, looks can be deceiving.