Japan's top tariff negotiator canceled a trip to the US over unspecified "points that need to be discussed at the ...

The U.S government’s demand for Japan to import more American rice is the latest wrench stalling plans for the drawn-out trade negotiations.

India, May 24 -- Shinjiro Koizumi tackles entrenched agricultural systems, aiming to modernize Japan's farming, boost food security, and position for future political leadership.

Japan’s economy is caught between inflationary monetary policy and powerful agricultural interests. There is no easy way out.

This came after US President Donald Trump revised the US-Japan trade deal inked in July—which had kept Tokyo's tariff rate at 15%—by adding a commitment for Japan to buy more American rice ...

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 ...

Whither Japan aims to provide a Japanese perspective on how Japan is addressing its problems. But sometimes a foreign view is edifying. A recently published WTO study of Japanese agriculture ...

But for Japan the TPP deal breaker will be agriculture. Ironically, perhaps, what Yamashita and other analysts are saying is TPP or no TPP, Japanese agriculture must reform or perish.

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 ...

One Japanese official criticised the proposal as an “interference in domestic affairs". Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

A Trump administration request that Japan buy more U.S. rice caused this week's snag in bilateral trade talks as Tokyo ...