This month's installment of Fumie Oyama's photo series on Sado Island's wildlife presents the crested ibis and its abundant prey in flooded spring rice paddies.
Automated rice planting by AI-based robots in Saitama Prefecture is being tested as an effective measure for reducing labor in the aging farming population.
It started in the fall of 2014. Fresh from an exhilarating teacher trip to Cambodia, my friend and colleague Saya and I sat...