NARITA, Chiba Pref. -- Crops rustling in the wind appear to be trembling because of the jetliner taxiing nearby, its fin visible above the walls surrounding the farm.

Then there's the scream of jetliners flying over the farm, which lies just 400 meters off the south end of the new runway at Narita airport.

Farmers in the 1.7-hectare field, located in the Toho district, glance quickly at the silver belly of planes or cover their ears with muddy hands, then soon resume their work.