Somewhere on this earth at this moment, it is raining. The rainy season brought heavy rains in Kyushu area this year.
Rain around this time of the year is very important to grow rice, which Japanese love to eat.
Rice plants are sway in the wind, while they are put in tidily in the paddy field with water.
This is the unspoilt scenery for every Japanese from ancient ancestors. If you look down the Japanese islands from the sky, you can see the whole country is patched with water of paddy field, and green breeze blow across it. When imagined in that way, you can see Japan as a land of water.
Since there always has been a plenty of water available in the country, it is hard to feel the worth of it for Japanese; however, water has influenced people's life in many ways which you can see the evidences in history as well. I would like to start talking about those stories.
