Japan's Agriculture Minister Koizumi Shinjiro says the country will step up efforts to export products made from rice. The ...

The farm ministry said Thursday demand for staple rice in Japan for the year to June 2026 could rise by up to 380,000 tons ...

President Trump has signed an executive order to implement a trade agreement with Japan that is expected to increase U.S.

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 ...

Thang praised Japan as a strategic partner, not only for its capital and technology but also for management experience ...

Tokyo police have arrested four people on suspicion of illegally arranging cleaning jobs for Indonesians admitted to Japan as ...

Will Japan avoid economic and societal decline? I believe that the answer to this question depends, more than anything else, on free market reform of agriculture. It is a regrettable but seemingly ...

Whither Japan aims to convey a Japanese perspective on how Japan is addressing its problems. But sometimes a foreign view is edifying. A recently published World Trade Organization (WTO) study of ...

DESPITE her recent remarkable progress in industry and commerce, Japan is still predominantly an agricultural country. The major part of her national net production is drawn from agriculture, and more ...

BEIJING - Chinese producers and traders of agricultural products complain that exports to Japan have suffered a sharp decline since a massive quake and tsunami disrupted the country's transportation ...