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 ...

A global Japanese food boom and the weak yen propelled Japan’s exports of agricultural, forestry and fisheries products and ...

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 ...

The Philippines and Japan expand their agricultural cooperation pact to include fisheries, targeting smart farming, tech ...

Sure, you could buy a laptop, tablet or cloud service from Toshiba. But how about some spinach? The Tokyo-based conglomerate is joining other IT firms in Japan by getting into high-tech farming. 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 aging workforce and declining population are having significant effects on the country's agriculture industry. The 2020 Census of Agriculture and Forestry found that between 2015 and 2020, the ...

The last high-rise disappeared in the rearview mirror as rice fields unfolded like a patchwork quilt stitched across the countryside. A thin mist hovered over narrow paddies, each sprout glowing green ...

Abe Shinzo is often considered Japan’s most powerful prime minister. But he faced steep political opposition in one of his primary goals. Under the Abe administration, the power of the prime minister ...