Japan's private-sector rice inventories totaled 3 million tons at the end of February, up 1.5 times from a year earlier, the agriculture ministry said in a survey report Tuesday. Rice sales have ...

Japan's agriculture ministry has decided to tighten restrictions on exports of seeds and saplings of domestically bred fruit ...

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 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 ...

Will Japan avoid economic and societal decline? I believe that the answer to this question depends, more than anything else, on free market reform of agriculture. It is a regrettable but seemingly ...

Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The resignation comes as... TOKYO — Japan's agriculture minister resigned ...

Earnest, sometimes frantic and desperate, appeals are being made to the fledgling Noda government for new policies to revive economic growth and, critically, to forestall further “hollowing out” of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan and Ukraine agreed to establish a joint working group that will develop a strategy for the restoration of Ukraine's ...

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 (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 ...