A Trump administration request that Japan buy more U.S. rice caused this week's snag in bilateral trade talks as Tokyo "strongly objected" to the condition, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday.

The Japanese government is shifting its agricultural policy to increase rice production, as recently instructed by Prime ...

Japan's industry and land ministries on Tuesday proposed revising guidelines to extend offshore wind project leases by 10 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Japan's agriculture has been adopting smart-farming for products — including tea, wine and rice — to revitalize the local region and to expand its global reach.

For Urban Farming Wisdom, Look to Japan Japan's efficient garden plots could be a model for how to keep feeding ourselves, even as sprawling cities devour land By Azby Brown June 10, 2010 ...

Shiomi traces weekend farming to widespread food-safety concerns, following mad-cow disease outbreaks in Japan, the United States and Britain and the discovery in Japan of banned pesticides in ...

A shrinking economy in Japan is rekindling a long-dormant attachment to the land — a part of the culture that had faded with postwar industrialization.