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June is the rainy season here. Before I came to Japan, I was warned that it rained everyday for the rice. This has been a lie on both Junes I have seen. (Damn global warning?)

The rice fields are just amazing. There is acre after acre of flooded field here with perhaps the fastest growing plant ever created. I have the next few days off (although I would far rather be earning money and I`ll try and get some pictures taken of them) Here is a good post with pictures by an old favourite (un?)fortunate enough to have to go about planting the fields by hand. He is on the JET program which I thought stood for Japan English Teaching programme but actually stands for Japan Exchange and Teaching programme and which seems to be (in his case at least) the Japan Slave Exchange programme. Every post is how he weeds large fields, breaks his back planting rice seedlings by hand and teaches children to make whistles. Oh well. It`s the cultural experience…