Japan's Agriculture Minister Koizumi Shinjiro says the country will step up efforts to export products made from rice. The ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he would step down after less than a year in power, during which he lost ...

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 ...

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With farming communities in demographic decline, pending Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and the specter of some farmland being contaminated by radiation for decades, it is safe to say that ...

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 ...

But for Japan the TPP deal breaker will be agriculture. Ironically, perhaps, what Yamashita and other analysts are saying is TPP or no TPP, Japanese agriculture must reform or perish.