The festival celebrates the arrival of spring, Japanese cultural heritage, and Tuscaloosa’s sister city, Narashino, Japan. Festival attendees can expect live performances, cultural ...

Crowds line the streets to watch a parade of competing beauty queens atop their regional floats, and the festival ... Harvest Queen is chosen amid a backdrop of spectacular fireworks. Dewi Sri ...

Therefore, the government has been providing subsidies to encourage farmers to grow rice for animal feed, exports and other non-staple food uses. For the 2024 rice harvest, rice paddies capable of ...

rice, millet, wheat or beans, these motifs take the shape of the main local crops, to ensure a prosperous year. Awa Odori, Tokushima: Japan's biggest dance festival Every summer from 12 to 15 ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food ... But utilizing the harvest to be otherwise delivered to the global ...

The price surges came even as the government started auctioning its stockpiles earlier this month to ease soaring prices of the Japanese staple. The spike in rice prices followed a poor harvest in the ...