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 ...

Under former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, Japanese agriculture was a target for regulatory reform. There was an especial focus on reforming the organisation of agricultural cooperatives ...

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 ...

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, ...

Abe Shinzo is often considered Japan’s most powerful prime minister. But he faced steep political opposition in one of his primary goals. Under the Abe administration, the power of the prime minister ...

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 ...

Japanese Minister of Agriculture Taku Eto stepped down from his office after making a remark about rice that many in the public found out of touch with budget-conscious consumers. Eto allegedly told ...

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 traditional gender roles in Japanese agriculture are beginning to shift, giving way to a more flexible division of labor.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s speech at the 204th session of the Diet in January 2021 reaffirmed his pledge to boost exports in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors, ...

Tokyo — Nine teenaged students at a Japanese agricultural school have really earned their keep this summer, after the racehorse they raised from birth fetched a whopping $237,656 at auction. The five ...

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 ...