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

STORY: At 77 years old, Yasuyuki Kurosawa keeps tending his crops, in spite of record high temperatures and sweltering weather that suffocated Japan this summer. He is among Japan's increasingly ...

The plan includes loans to oyster farmers of up to ¥6 million with virtually no interest for the first five years, provided ...

Drones in agriculture have become an invaluable tool for those in need of maximizing their business by utilizing only as much inventory as necessary, aerially assessing crop health, or monitoring ...

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.

As Japanese matcha producers struggle with the surge in demand, the industry is facing another problem — counterfeit matcha.

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 ...

SHONAI, Japan — This broad coastal plain near the Sea of Japan, blessed with abundant water and rich soil and checkered with rice paddies hued golden yellow in the early spring, is one of the ...

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel shakes hands with a local vendor at the farmers market at Camp Hansen, a U.S. Marine Corps base on a southern Japanese island of Okinawa, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.

An international business expert has said that the trade deal Donald Trump struck with Japan that has been welcomed by the U.S. rural sector key to his re-election chances, is not enough to make up ...

MIKAWA, Japan (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 the ...