Actually, that sounds kind of fun. I grew up in the land of wood mills and fishing, two industries I would personally like to see crumble to the ground. I'm still thinking of doing a year-long interpreting program someday, so maybe I too will be a rice planter for a day.

How much rice does the average person eat a year in Japan? I could look it up myself, but since it's your blog I feel that you have the responsibility to tell us about how much 600kg of rice is...

BTW I hope your *teacher* had pants on at least... if not I'm ticked that you didn't moblog it.

"Per capita" is synonomous with "per person" correct? If this is the case, then the average Japanese person eats around 65KG of rice a year. So this means with our day of work we fed around nine Japanese people their yearly rice consumption. Or I guess you could think of it as feeding one person for nine years.

http://www.maff.go.jp/mud/343.html