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

Japan's Kagawa prefecture will cull 330,000 chickens at a farm after the country's first bird flu outbreak in poultry in more than two years, government officials said on Thursday.

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Nobuo Kubo inherited his rice farm four decades ago, becoming the third generation in his family to look ...

Matcha’s supply crunch follows an earlier national rice supply crisis and has symbolised Japan’s painful return to inflation ...

Aging and a lack of successors are serious issues for Japan's farms. But some young farmers are finding new ways to thrive.

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 ...

When the coronavirus outbreak caused rice and instant noodles to disappear from supermarket shelves in Tokyo this year, Kaoru Okada, 36, decided to leave the capital because he was worried about food ...

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

Yoshinoya Farm Fukushima in northeastern Japan has undergone many trials and tribulations in recent years. The business employs 18 people growing cabbages, onions, and rice. Last year, water supplies ...

The delegation builds on previous trips to learn how scallops are grown, harvested, processed, marketed and made into various products in Japan, toward diversifying Maine’s coastal economy.

Demand for matcha – which used to be exclusive to nobles and samurai in Japan – has soared in Australia. Here’s why farmers ...

A Vietnamese woman and her Japanese husband have been arrested in Osaka Prefecture on suspicion of smuggling 45 tons of ...