This is my neighbor. Actually he lives on the otherside of the series of rice fields that stretch out behind my home. I don't know his name, but I see him almost everyday working the three tambos (japanese for small field) that we look out of onto from our bedroom window. He is sixty years old and spends much of his day from dawn to dusk in the dirt, divining rice, onions, cabbage, broccoli, and raddish from the dark brown japanese soil. His two rice fields combined will yield about 1600 kilograms of rice this season (3600 pounds). At 300 yen per kilo retail that's 480,000 yen, or just over $4,000 per year gross income, assuming he sells it all. Likely he will keep his own families portion.