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Terraced rice fields. Though notoriously difficult to work and maintain, the lack of agricultural land makes scenes like this common in Japan. |
| Nope, it's not a lake. You are looking at flooded rice fields, more of which in "Rice and the Rainy Season". |  |
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Being mostly covered with mountains, the valleys in Japan are considered prime land. In this case it's prime arable land.... |
| ......while in this case a small town has grown, snaking it's way as far up the valley as possible. |  |