Farmers are getting their rice seedlings in. It's Golden Week, when four national holidays fall in the space of seven days. Now is the traditional time to plant the rice, which is rather more easily done these days, thanks to the Kubota Corporation. Lots of younger people come home from Tokyo and other cities to help their parents and grandparents get the seedlings in the ground, though I don't think I've seen any younger people (or men) walk behind the planting machines to fill in the gaps and corners of the fields.
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