Hodaka Maruyama made the comments on a visit to the islands known as the Kurils, or the northern territories.

这名议员名为丸山穂高，他作此言论时正在访问千岛群岛，这片群岛也称北方四岛。

And then Japan, again, long before the arrival of rice farming, the storehouses of Sannai Maruyama could already hold great surpluses of wild plant foods.

再说日本，早在水稻种植到来之前，三内丸山的仓库就已经可以储存大量剩余的野生植物食物。