The sixth Vietnam - Japan high-level agricultural cooperation dialogue convened in Tokyo on September 4, with Acting ...

Japan's agriculture minister and his Vietnamese counterpart have drawn up a cooperation plan. Koizumi Shinjiro sat down with Vietnam's minister of agriculture and environment, Tran Duc Thang, in Tokyo ...

Japan's agriculture minister says if his ministry's projections hold true, a substantial amount of new rice will enter the ...

Surging grain prices have recently been making headlines. As price levels will likely remain high, I would like to examine what agricultural policy should be put in place in Japan. We can begin by ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Japan has no intention of sacrificing its agricultural sector in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recent demand that Japan import more American rice, the country ...

Kunio Yanagida, referred to in the title, is none other than that Kunio Yanagida (1875-1962), the father of Japanese folklore study and author of Tono Monogatari ("Tales of Tono"). Some readers of ...

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.

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 ...

TOKYO -- Akira Banzai, the president of Japan's powerful umbrella organization for regional agricultural cooperatives, JA-Zenchu, said Thursday he is stepping down in August. The announcement ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Lawmakers of Japan's ruling party will vote on Monday whether to hold an extraordinary leadership election ...