Before the paddy art, the village’s only claim to fame was the discovery here in 1981 of the archaeological remains of 2,000-year-old rice paddies, making it one of the oldest rice-growing ...

Inakadate, a village in Aomori at the north end of the Honshu mainland of Japan, has succeeded in revitalising itself by creating a unique form of landscape art in their rice paddies. Today, their ...

The Force has awakened in a Japanese rice paddy field. In an epic "Star Wars" tribute, popular characters have been designed across rice paddies in a village in Aomori Prefecture in Japan. The ...

The rice paddy is an echo of Agnes Denes’s “Wheatfield: A Confrontation,” an installation from 1982, in which the artist planted wheat atop the landfill that is now Battery Park City.

Rice paddy cartoons are grown to celebrate the 90th anniversary of manga artist Osamu Tezuka. ... The Japanese village of Inakadate transforms its rice paddies into a visual spectacle each year.

Since then, the rice paddy art has been good for local tourism—so good, it seems, that it has spread to other prefectures. The Naruto tanbo art, for instance, is located in Okayama Prefecture ...

Indian Institute of Rice Research trains 10,000 farmers in Direct Seeded Rice for sustainable production with SBI Foundation ...

One Piece: Gear Rice Paddy. Inakagate is a village in the Aomori Prefecture in Japan, which has created some wild art displays in the past, and has done so once again in shining a spotlight on Luffy.

It was the summer of 1944 when U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke, 33, of Marquette, crashed into a rice paddy in the village of Sapekhati, India.