The city of Yatsushiro, itself a
coastal river town, also governs very remote sections of Kyushu.
Some areas of the interior were first connected by road in 1959 and
received electricity in 1960. Rice culture, the dominant crop,
is found everywhere it will fit in the landscape.
Ripening rice in Yabe town.
Harvesting rice in the isolated
valley of Naidaijin, east of Matsubase.
