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

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 ...

There is a slim possibility an opposition party leader becomes Japan's prime minister. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he would resign, caving into ruling party pressure on ...

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: Japanese Agricultural Minister Shinjiro Koizumi urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to step down, Nikkei reports, a ...

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.

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 ...

The PAN Group has signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese partners AGRI SMILE and Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. to ...