As the rice-planting season wraps up, Higashihiroshima, known as a rice-producing city, is still reeling from last summer's devastating floods.
This year, farmers weren't able to plant rice in 90 percent of the rice fields affected by the flood in the city, officials say.
In response, one agricultural association in a disaster-stricken area launched initiatives to adapt, including by turning nonrice farmland into rice paddies and cultivating soybeans instead in rice fields where waterways were destroyed.