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 ...

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 ...

His company, Salad Bowl Group, is now one of the innovative new players in Japanese agriculture.

Politics Japan's farming strategy more parry than thrust Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks at a government panel charged with discussing TPP-related measures.

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 ...

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 ...

However, the circumstances surrounding agriculture are changing. Farming is undergoing a makeover for better or worse, as covered by Scilla Alecci in ‘ Japan: Agriculture the latest trend among ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.