The chagusaba method is sustainable, makes tea taste better and helps with biodiversity. But it’s also labor-intensive and ...

Japan's largest group of rice collectors and wholesalers is raising their advance payments to rice farmers. An analyst says this signals that the price of autumn harvests is likely to be high again ...

KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...

OGATA, Japan—Hajime Kobayashi, a farmer in the northern part of Japan's main Honshu island, thinks Tokyo should end its decadeslong protection of the agricultural sector. Mr. Kobayashi's position is ...

MIKAWA, Japan (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that the ...

President Trump slashed tariffs on Japanese cars Thursday in a sweeping trade deal that opens Tokyo’s markets to US rice and ...

Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture minister of Japan, eats a rice ball during his visit to a rice farm in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture ...

MIKAWA, Japan, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that ...

Whether it’s posting pictures of him eating gyudon (beef bowl) between meetings or holding rice balls at campaign stops, Shinjiro Koizumi has worked hard to portray himself as a regular Tokyoite. The ...