When I lived in nagano , the town i lived in was at the base of Asama-yama, and there was alot of rice farming there. It seems like a beautiful art, and it looks like it is being lost as japan lets more and more american imorted rice in, as well as the younger people more interested in what to hang on their cell phones than with farming. Does anyone here have any thoughts? Will japan cease to be an agricultural nation, to be a consure of imported goods?