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Blog, English School Articles · June 21, 2012

The Rainy Season and Rice Farming in Japan

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The rainy season is in full swing here in Tsukaguchi, Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. As I sit here writing this post at my English conversation school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi, (スミス英会話塚口校), it’s pouring rain outside and it looks like it’s going to keep raining until tomorrow! Wow! No worries because I have rain gear (rain suit and umbrella) to move between my English conversation school and home, both located in Tsukaguchi not far from each other. The rain can be a bit annoying but there’s a good side to having lots of rain here. Yesterday a Japanese teacher of mine told me the rainy season was very important for growing rice in Japan and was welcomed by the rice farmers. With rice being a staple food here in Japan and so much rice being consumed by Japanese on a daily basis, rice farming is understandably very important and for rice farming, lots of water is a good thing. The rice farmers in Japan must all be thinking the same thing right now: Let it rain! For the rest of us living in Japan, the reward for putting up with all the rain during the rainy season in Japan is having lots of nice rice to eat! (^.^)

Derek

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  1. Martin says

    June 21, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Ducks really love it too! There’s a bunch of them in the canal in front of our place! But this was altogether too much rain all at once with slides and floods everywhere once again. We are generally lucky where we live, aren’t we.

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