OSHU, Iwate Prefecture—A roughly 3,000-square-meter rice paddy here has been transformed into a growing portrait of Shohei Ohtani, superstar of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Oshu’s homegrown hero. The ...

"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train" turned out to have the momentum of a runaway locomotive at the box office. Despite being released during the pandemic, the theatrical anime ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The rice fields in Japan transform into rice paddy art or Tanbo Art at certain times each year. This summer, the fields in Iwate Prefecture have attracted attention as they are ...

Two rice paddy artworks recently debuted in Yong'an town of Kenli district in Dongying, Shandong province. [Photo by Liu Yongjie/For chinadaily.com.cn] Two rice paddy artworks recently debuted in Yong ...

Passengers on the Akita Inland Line, which runs between Kakunodate and Takanosu in Akita Prefecture, are treated to panoramas of rice paddies and tree-covered hills. And every summer volunteers create ...

The use of colored rice on Sept. 8 results in a work of rice paddy art near Mungwang Reservoir in Goesan-gun County, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. The county office was inspired by "Mudong" (A Dancing ...

Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu is depicted in rice paddy art in the northeastern Japan city of Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Sept. 23, 2021. The ...

Aerial photo taken on June 2, 2019 shows children playing chess on a giant chessboard surrounded by rice paddy at Luohong Village of Deqing County in Zhaoqing City, south China's Guangdong Province.