Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio remained at 38% in the 2024/25 fiscal year ended March 31, unchanged from a year earlier ...

The Philippines and Japan have committed to enhancing cooperation in agricultural trade and technology, with Manila pressing ...

U.S. Wheat Associates joined a successful USDA trade mission to Japan in early October. The trip was led by Luke Lindberg, ...

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 ...

Whither Japan aims to convey a Japanese perspective on how Japan is addressing its problems. But sometimes a foreign view is edifying. A recently published World Trade Organization (WTO) study 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 ...

Japan's ruling party picks the country's likely next prime minister on Saturday, aiming to regain public trust as voters ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Philippines is asking Japan to increase its purchases of local fruits by opening its borders to pomelos, according to the ...