TOKYO -- After December's landslide re-election, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's program to revive the nation's economy is set to meet perhaps its stiffest challenge, the nation's sclerotic ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...

TOKYO -- How should Japan open its market to farm products from abroad while reforming the agricultural sector? Japan quickly should take steps to regain lost ground in its trade policy. Attempts to ...

Japan's aging workforce and declining population are having significant effects on the country's agriculture industry. The 2020 Census of Agriculture and Forestry found that between 2015 and 2020, the ...

The last high-rise disappeared in the rearview mirror as rice fields unfolded like a patchwork quilt stitched across the countryside. A thin mist hovered over narrow paddies, each sprout glowing green ...

Farmers, ranchers and many others involved in U.S. agriculture are eagerly awaiting the announcement of a mini-trade deal between the United States and Japan, a long-time, steady customer of U.S. ag ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...