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 -- Japan's politically powerful farming lobby on Feb. 9 accepted plans by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to reform the agricultural sector, after the initial proposals were watered down.

Japan's farm ministry said Friday it would set its rice production target for 2026 at 7.11 million tons in line with the ...

Japan is “very close” to opening its market to Brazilian beef, according to the South American country’s agriculture minister ...

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 ...

Japan has partnered with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on an initiative aimed at modernizing ...

U.S. potato farmers are facing disappointment as the recent trade agreement with Japan failed to include market access for ...

Former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race.

The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of ...

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 ...