Why is rice a staple food in Japan?

Answer 1

It is grown there because of the heavy sesonal rains there. All the water on and in the land is ideal for growing grass. It is one of the easier crops to grow and because of the benifets there habitat provides people generaly grow rice there.

Answer 2

the land there is wet and rice needs wet land to grow

Answer 3

rice is the staple food in Japan because it is easy to grow and it is cheap.

Answer 4

cheap calories, easy to grow at local climate

Answer 5

Rice is in Japan what wheat is in the United States: Their basic grain crop. That automatically makes it very important, as the basic crop for feeding their own people.

Answer 6

Rice grows well in Asia, has been grown there for thousands of years and is therefore the cereal that is most eaten in Asian countries. This makes rice the staple cereal in Asia.

Answer 7

other than violin and piano thats all they have

Answer 8

Dogs.