The country once led the world in semiconductors and electronics, but over the years it fell behind Taiwan, South Korea and ...

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

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 ...

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

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 devastation to Japan caused by the recent tsunami and on-going nuclear reactor problems is having a wide ranging impact on business throughout the world. First and foremost, Americans must keep ...

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 ...