Talk:Japanese rice

WikiProject Food and drink Tagging
This article talk page was automatically added with WikiProject Food and drink banner as it falls under Category:Food or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. The bot was instructed to tagg these articles upon consenus from WikiProject Food and drink. You can find the related request for tagging here. Maximum and carefull attention was done to avoid any wrongly tagging any categories, but mistakes may happen... If you have concerns, please inform on the project talk page -- TinucherianBot (talk) 18:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

This article is grossly misnamed and miswritten.
Japonica is not Japanese rice, but the sticky variant of Asian rice (one of two forms of Oryza sativa: indica and japonica). It was first cultivated in the Yangtze River Delta region of China and widely cultivated today across East Asia. To call it "Japanese rice" and exclusively focus on Japanese terms and practices is a complete misuse of the scientific name of 'Oryza sativa var. japonica'. I don't see any articles specifically focused on "Chinese rice" or "Korean rice." If this article is about the japonica stock of rice then it should stick to talking about the rice breed (which is widely cultivated across East Asia) and not focus on the Japanese practices of cooking and eating rice. Naus (talk) 16:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Why this complaint is absurd:
Japonica —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.184.95.88 (talk) 10:28, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Availability in The United States of America
Is this variety of rice available for growth in or import to the USA? It was unclear in the article. -- Azemocram (talk) 05:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Agree on keeping the current title the same
There is a rather popular sub-culture knowledge that Japanese have a 'special' type of rice, different than the one usually available in most non-asian countries.

This page should stay as is, since it provides good information on Japanese rice varieties and customs. This may just be what the reader wanted (It was so in my case, and I entered 'Japanese rice' in the search algorithm). For correctness, a disambiguation leading to a more scientifically accurate page may be better, rather than changing the article itself.

Hexaq (talk) 12:38, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

"Spot" with rice polishing machine?
I can't quite visualize this. Is it a store, a street vendor, or a machine sitting there like a village pump? And, why don't people buy already-polished rice instead of going to a "spot" with a machine? I think this needs a clearer description. (not logged in; normally known as CouldOughta) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.232.205 (talk) 21:21, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Japonica and Indica split date
U.S. Study Concludes Rice Originates in China. "While japonica and indica split apart from each other about 3,900 years ago." I'm not sure whether this is accurate or not. Komitsuki (talk) 14:01, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Rewrite
I did a substantial rewrite to correct the inaccuracies (pointed out by Naus) of having an article confused about whether it's about Japonica rice botanically or rice in Japan. The vast majority of the article was written specifically about rice in Japan, thus I rewrote it to shift the focus to that. There was almost nothing about Japonica rice botanically. Also I redirected Japonica rice to rice. Japonica is taxonomically both a subspecies and a cultivar group which refers collectively to thousands of cultivars of rice, many of which are grown outside Japan and have nothing to do with Japanese rice. Japonica rice does not equal Japanese rice; the latter refers merely to Japonica strains grown in Japan. Just as there are numerous botanical names containing the word Japonica which are not exclusive to Japan. Nor is Japonica interchangeable with uruchimai, the Japanese term for non-glutinous rice. Thus it was highly misleading that the article was co-titled Japonica rice yet focused almost entirely on rice in Japan. If someone is game for it, it may be beneficial to have botanically focused articles for the two cultivar groups Japonica rice and Indica rice. Dforest (talk) 11:12, 8 April 2013 (UTC)