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This is a sentence from chapter 11 of Tobira:

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> 日本人は季節や天候の変化を大変気にするが、これは日本人が米作りを非常に大事なことと考え、どうやって効率よく米を生産するかが、日本人の生活の仕方や考え方に強い影響を与えてきたこと
> **と関係がある** と言われている。

I think I was able to understand it well before I came upon the と関係がある part;
now I can't seem to understand what the whole sentence means. What has a
relation with what?
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と関係がある in a long sentence
You can encapsulate the whole thing between これは and と関係がある. The structure is
これはAと関係があるといわれている= _It is said that this is related to (the fact that) A_ ,
where A is 日本人が米作りを....与えてきたこと.
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This is a deeply nested sentence, but its basic structure is
"AはBと関係があると言われている", or "A is said to be related to B". What's tricky about
this sentence is that B itself is two very long clauses, one of which even
contains an embedded question:

  * **A** : これ _this_
  * **B** : 日本人 **が** 米作りを非常に大事なことと考え、どうやって効率よく米を生産するか **が** 、日本人の生活の仕方や考え方に強い影響を与えてきた **こと**  
**the fact that** the Japanese consider rice cultivation to be very important,
**and that** how to produce rice efficiently has strongly influenced the way
of life and thinking of the Japanese people

Note that これ is marked with は but the two subjects in the B part are marked
with が (because it's in a こと-clause).

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> 日本人は季節や天候の変化を大変気にするが、[これ]Aは[日本人が米作りを非常に大事なことと考え、どうやって効率よく米を生産するかが、日本人の生活の仕方や考え方に強い影響を与えてきたこと]Bと関係があると言われている。
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> Japanese people are very concerned about seasons and weather changes.
> [This]A is said to be realted to [the fact that the Japanese consider rice
> cultivation to be very important, and that how to produce rice efficiently
> has strongly influenced the way of life and thinking of the Japanese
> people]B.
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