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 farm ministry said Friday it would set its rice production target for 2026 at 7.11 million tons in line with the ...

NIIGATA, Japan — It doesn’t look like much: a few mismatched plots of farmland wedged between busy highways and commercial developments on the outskirts of this midsized city. But if Ryusuke Goto, 27, ...

Japan has partnered with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on an initiative aimed at modernizing ...

As its farmers get too old to work the land, Japan is grappling with a question now facing many industrialized nations: Who will grow our food in the future? Reporter Sam Eaton presents the latest in ...

Japan is “very close” to opening its market to Brazilian beef, according to the South American country’s agriculture minister ...

U.S. potato farmers are facing disappointment as the recent trade agreement with Japan failed to include market access for ...

Companies like Spread are giving Japan’s agriculture industry a serious upgrade for the 21st century. Spread shot to fame for its highly automated, vertical farming units. The company is now looking ...

The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of ...