The Japanese people love to eat rice -- and lots of it. A bowl of rice is served with almost every meal in a Japanese home. In order to supply enough of it to the market place, 40 percent of Japan's farmland is used to grow rice. The Japanese farmers are the most efficient rice growers in the world, producing almost 10.7million ton(ne)s of rice every year. According to Japanese mythology, the fox is the rice god's messenger.
