Japan’s famous akoya pearls have never been more in demand but, as seas warm and younger generations move to the city, the ...

TSURUOKA, Japan, July 29 (Reuters) - Far from dreading the prospect of a Pacific trade deal that would open up Japanese markets to higher grain and meat imports, rice and pig farmer Kazushi Saito ...

Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture minister of Japan, eats a rice ball during his visit to a rice farm in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture ...

BANGKOK/TOKYO -- Thai rice farmers facing low prices in the domestic market hope to take advantage of Japan's stubbornly high ...

(AP) A pair of Japanese farmers whose livelihoods were wrecked by the 2011 nuclear disaster staged a protest Friday at Tokyo’s agriculture ministry, scuffling briefly with police as they ...

STORY: 70-year-old Japanese farmer, Masahiro Hoshina, has been growing wasabi in Okutama, west of downtown Tokyo, for years. But as typhoon season approaches, he’s getting concerned about his future.

KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village ...

MIKAWA, Japan, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that ...

As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agriculture ministers meet in Japan’s northern ...

770 residents of the Japanese port of Yamada died or remain missing as a result of the tsunami just under a year ago, the European Pressphoto Agency reports. The main industry in the town, aquafarming ...