About 30 people have gathered at terraced rice fields in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, for an annual scarecrow-making event.

Planting rice can be backbreaking work, and the labor must be worth it. The modest returns from traditional rice farming have deterred the children of many farmers from following in their parents’ ...

The terraced ridges of rice paddies are an iconic image of the Japanese countryside. Flooded with water, these winding lines of aquatic rice pattern forested hills partially occluded by the cool grays ...

In Niigata Prefecture, the landscapes soften into cedar forests, river gorges and wide agricultural valleys backed by snow-draped mountains. Winters here are famously heavy with snowfall. Summers ...

As the morning sun finds its way through the mist over Vietnam's terraced rice fields, local farmers lead buffalo into the paddies and pass another day without tourists in their hilly homeland.

The World Trade Center’s Oculus Plaza seems like the last place you’d find a living rice paddy, but there it is, set right into an undulating plywood planter box. A collaboration between the Port ...