Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday's upper house election, and a loss could worsen political instability at a time of daunting challenges, such as ...

Even today, rice farming cooperatives and rural communities remain deeply rooted throughout Japan, forming the foundation of ...

Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm ...

Yet a turning point in human history is underway. According to UN projections, the number of people in 85 countries will be ...

With elections coming in Japan, the threat of U.S. tariffs is forcing its prime minister to start talking tougher, and is getting people to rethink long-held assumptions about relations with the U.S.

As a country whose history has been closely tied to rice cultivation, Japan's current Reiwa rice crisis is worse than just a ...

From June 30 to July 3, 2025, around 15,000 delegates from over 190 countries gathered in Sevilla, Spain to take part in the Fourth International Conference on “Financing for Development” or FfD4. The ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan board member Junko Koeda said she was keeping a close eye on possible second-round effects on ...

The postwar agricultural policy on rice that has given more consideration to producers than consumers has revealed its limitations due to the high prices of the grain during the so-called “rice ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively high and steady.

The Directorate General of Customs and Excise has provided details on the categories of goods imported from abroad that are ...

Republicans are trying to woo Senator Lisa Murkowski by hiding a carve-out for Alaska in the most bizarre way possible.