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

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 ...

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 ...

Yoshinoya Farm Fukushima in northeastern Japan has undergone many trials and tribulations in recent years. The business employs 18 people growing cabbages, onions, and rice. Last year, water ...

TOKYO, May 26, 2023--Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA), a Japan-based non-profit research institute hosted the inaugural meeting in Tokyo, in response to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio ...

Shinjiro Koizumi underlines the government's plan for creating agricultural infrastructure that is more resistant to ...

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 ...

Japanese rice growers are unable to compete with large scale industrial agriculture. While the process already begun allows corporate ownership, cooperatives are preventing it at the local level.

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

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