Japan's agriculture ministry says this year's rice harvest will likely increase by about 660,000 tons from last year. The ...

Agrifood should generate serious revenue, not just survive, said Japan's new ag minister in a clear shift from past ...

By Kaori Kaneko, Tamiyuki Kihara and Eduardo Baptista TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -China has indicated it will ban all imports of ...

The average price of rice sold at supermarkets in Japan has hit a record high. The figure for a 5-kilogram bag of the staple ...

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 ...

China informed Japan on Wednesday that it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, media outlets reported - a decision which ...

China today informed Japan that it would ban all imports of Japanese seafood, media outlets reported — a decision that comes ...

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 ...

From this Thursday the 11 countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement--the United States and Japan most important among them--will meet again in Brunei. This session, ...

The farm sector’s influence is on the wane in Japan, although you wouldn’t know it from the TPP talks. In a meeting with his economic advisers on April 2, 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Abe clarified ...