Photo of the Day (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

An unmanned helicopter is used to plant rice seeds on May 27 in Sendai's Wakabayashi Ward, an area struck heavily by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Local farmer Koichi Kimura, 53, pictured at right, has plowed and irrigated his rice fields three times to remove salt from the soil, which has made it more fragile. Since there was a possibility rice planters could not be used on the paddies he decided to plant the rice seeds directly using a helicopter. (Mainichi)


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Vistors look at the colorful carved and recently restored of the main hall of the Shodenzan Kangi-in temple in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, in this recent photo. Experts spent two years checking the colors of the paint that had flaked off the wall, originally built and decorated about 250 years ago. The restored main hall will be opened to the general public on June 1. (Mainichi)

[Suich]

1. Wow!

I had no idea you could plant rice using a helicopter!

[stevedeshazer]

2. +1

[malaise]

3. Amazing

This is a first for me

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Wow...

And an RC 1:1 scale chopper.

[Kurovski]

5. K&R

Stunning temple.

[Jamastiene]

6. K&R

It feels good to see them starting to recover some. I hope they can recover fully.