{"id":1243,"date":"2023-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eikei.dev.db-force.net\/english\/news\/1243\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:48:36","slug":"details_00875","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/news\/1243\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice planting experience in terraced rice paddies in Ini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cms_text\">\n<p>On Thursday, May 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eikei.ac.jp\/english\/academics\/researcher\/details_00584.html\">Associate Professor&nbsp;Higginbotham<\/a>, 11 Eikei University of Hiroshima students, and Professor Kurihara (formerly Hiroshima Kokusai gakuin University)&nbsp;decided to go to rice terraces in the Ini district of Tsutsuga, Aki-Ota Town, for a rice planting experience and to visit the source water of the rice terraces in Ini.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first rice-planting experience for most of the students, and they learned about the reality of depopulation and the blessings of nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Beautiful terraced rice paddies selected as one of the &#038;quot100 best terraced rice paddies in Japan &#038;quot<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cmn_gallery col1\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11967_010.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cms_text\">\n<p>After listening to&nbsp;instruction on rice planting, some students were surprised at a depth of the rice paddies and the feel of the mud when they put their feet into the paddies and screamed at first.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the international students were very familiar with the process because They helped with rice planting in their home countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cmn_gallery col2\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11969_010.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11969_020.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cmn_gallery col2\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11974_010.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11974_020.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Lunchtime at Shoonji Temple <\/h2>\n<div class=\"cms_text\">\n<p>We had lunch at Shoshinji Temple &nbsp;while listening to the priest, Oe, and Kurihara sensei talks about Ini.<\/p>\n<p>Also local residents&nbsp;extended a warm invitation to the students to come back in the fall for the rice harvest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cmn_gallery col2\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11973_010.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cmsdata\/att\/00875_11973_020.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1244,"template":"","categories":[14],"class_list":["post-1243","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 19:07:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eikei.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}