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turf battle
Sep 10 2009, Ryosuke

Reporting from Hyakuri, Japan - Crouched in his lush green rice fields on this agricultural plain northeast of Tokyo, Masaru Umezawa works the land as his father and grandfather did before him.

On a humid late-summer afternoon, the only sound is the...

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