That's incorrect. Kokuho rice is based on Pearl Rice. Pearl Rice is a breed from the Yangtze Delta River Region. People there eat this breed, such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui. The Japanese stole seeds from that area during the invasion of China from the first and second Sino-Japanese wars and made their Japonica breed.

The long grain Jasmine rice is popular with southern China and Southeast Asia because it's from Southern China.

On Thursday, June 12, 2014 12:27:57 PM UTC-7, wrote:
> That's incorrect. Kokuho rice is based on Pearl Rice. Pearl Rice is a breed from the Yangtze Delta River Region. People there eat this breed, such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui. The Japanese stole seeds from that area during the invasion of China from the first and second Sino-Japanese wars and made their Japonica breed.
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If you're going to respond to a twenty-year-old post, kindly do not do so
to propagate misinformation. Calrose types are based on Oryza sativa japonica
varieties first shipped to California in 1899 and 1902, just a few years
after the first Sino-Japanese War, and a half-century before the second.