Japan's government is set to target a smaller rice harvest for next year, but sufficient to meet projected demand. This ...

From Kyoto’s misty hills to Tokyo’s TikTok cafes, the matcha boom has gone global – and Japan’s ageing tea farmers are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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MATSUYAMA--Global warming forced mikan farmer Junichiro Nishihara here into growing more heat-resistant avocados.

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is preparing a package of US goods including Ford pickups, soybeans and LNG to strengthen trade ties with Washington as China sharply reduces American imports ...