Rice and Japanese

Rice is essential foods for Japanese .Its nutritional value is really high and will be source of protein or people moving . 

Typical Japanese breakfast like rice and miso soup , grilled fish gives us good nutritional balance and it noted all over the world.

So, rice is really important for Japanese .

In Edo period in Japan, (about 1603～1808) farmer had to send the rice which they grow to shogunate like as a tax payment and at times ,  the samurai salary was payed with not money but rice.

Hm ? Nows Japan's salary ? Of course money LOL

If the company pay the "Rice" as a salary , its company will be broken soon . haha

Anyway , Rice is really important for Japanese. Even now, even old.