Japan's agriculture minister says if his ministry's projections hold true, a substantial amount of new rice will enter the market, leading to stable retail prices.

Chicago, May 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a research report Japan Precision Farming Market by Technology (Guidance, Remote Sensing and Variable Rate Technology), Offering, Application ...

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 ...

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

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 noncompetitive farming sector has been a roadblock to participation in free trade pacts with other countries. Dōmoto Hiroshi explains how Japanese agricultural policy has weakened the ...

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 ...

A shrinking economy in Japan is rekindling a long-dormant attachment to the land — a part of the culture that had faded with postwar industrialization.

The farm sector’s influence is on the wane in Japan, although you wouldn’t know it from the TPP talks.

Japanese agriculture is famously operates under the protection of labyrinthian trade barriers and a 800 percent tariff on imported rice. Japanese consumers are said (by politicians and bureaucrats ...

For Urban Farming Wisdom, Look to Japan Japan's efficient garden plots could be a model for how to keep feeding ourselves, even as sprawling cities devour land By Azby Brown June 10, 2010 ...

Japan’s farm and general population are both getting smaller and older, and a pending 12-nation trade agreement — the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — will end government support and ...