This episode is more than just rice! Perhaps this will open your eyes to the adventure you're about to take: ☆ Beautiful scenery ☆ Dangerous animals ☆ Delicious foods ☆ Handling heavy machinery ☆ Booze and parties! (Sake and festivals) All this is part of the story of rice in Japan. You are what you eat (and drink) and in Japan, that may just be a lot of rice! Rice is more than food in Japan – it's used in religious ceremonies and at festivals. Watch sumo and you'll see them throwing – rice! Rice was even once used as money just like how the Romans used salt as currency. There are also many varieties of rice. The reason? Japan has so many different landscapes and climates – some varieties do well at elevation, so taste better when cold, others when hot. The taste differs from region to region based on the environment – water, air, temperature, fertilizer, elevation, planting / harvesting and general daily care. In the episode, John Daub travels to Hyogo prefecture north of Kobe to a rice paddy owned by sake maker Dassai. By planting the rice by hand, it's an opportunity to get a feeling for how rice was grown decades ago. These days though, a rice planting machine is used and John jumps into the driver's seat for a chance to plant a few rows of Yamada Nishiki rice. This program opens in Tokyo at Ueno at Inari-cho Aizawa Rice Shop. The owner explains the meaning of rice to Japanese and we even get to watch the husking process and eat some gohan. Get a close look at the rice polishing process: * Genmai (Brown Rice) * Hakumai (Polished White Rice) We meet Mr. Seiichi, John's 94 year old neighbor! He talks about how important rice was in the early 1900s in Japan. URL: ★ Inari-cho Aizawa Rice Shop / いなりちょう相沢米店   http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/ainokome/ ★ Dassai Sake https://www.asahishuzo.ne.jp/en/ “Brewed for Sipping” This show has been created and produced by John Daub ジョン・ドーブ. He's been living and working in Japan for over 18 years and regularly reports on TV for Japan's International Channel.

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1. Your neighbor looks much like 75 than 94
2. honestly 94 yr old does look super young
3. Btw snakes aren't poisonous they are venomous
4. nice
5. Cool video.
   The old folks and the kids putting in the rice stems in the field. Even the cop too-I notice he wasn't carrying a gun. Crime must be low there.
6. all indonesian people still plant the rice with dis method 😆
7. In India also, particularly in the southern India, rice is treated as sacred just like in Japan. Rice is given as offerings to God and during childhood we are brought up telling not to waste food, that is the staple rice. Annapoorni is the rice giver Goddess. There are also other nature Gods for rice. Sake in Japan, is what sundakanji in southern India.
8. Konnichiwa. I am from India. Next to my Indian culture, i love Japanese culture the most. Both are ancient with lots of cultural wealth and heritage. Would love to tour Japan one day. Arigato. Btw nice video guys. Your videos are of top notch quality.
9. so, does the regular rice in japan is sticky after cooked? and is it the same rice as the japanese sticky rice ? bsc rice in my country is a bit dry n doesnt sticky at all. btw great video! :)
10. The production and narration is amazing for a youtube content.
    Also, I'm so glad that you didn't take the foreign buffoon style approach.
11. That is awesome especially when the cop tried it
12. WELCOME TO THE RICE FIELDS MOTHAFU*KAH!!!!!!!
13. わたしより箸の持ち方上手い(笑)
14. Thank you John. Just discovered your videos. Really fun to watch and well made and produced. Bravo.
    Thanks for all the info on Rice. It is something I eat almost every day. Love it. Keep many large bags of it on hand.
15. japan is so smart with their food !
16. Thanks for the good research - it's obvious the time and care taken over these videos.
17. 10:29 that guy 93yo! wow! he age so well.
18. My rice didn't taste as good, it's probably the batch you planted.
19. The machine is awesome.
20. This is a really great show man, ill probably never be able to travel anywhere this exotic, but nice to see