Japan's agriculture ministry says nearly one-third of the country's farmland will lack the people needed to grow crops in 10 ...

Surging grain prices have recently been making headlines. As price levels will likely remain high, I would like to examine what agricultural policy should be put in place in Japan. We can begin by ...

Japan's agriculture minister and his Vietnamese counterpart have drawn up a cooperation plan. Koizumi Shinjiro sat down with Vietnam's minister of agriculture and environment, Tran Duc Thang, in Tokyo ...

DESPITE her recent remarkable progress in industry and commerce, Japan is still predominantly an agricultural country. The major part of her national net production is drawn from agriculture, and more ...

Kunio Yanagida, referred to in the title, is none other than that Kunio Yanagida (1875-1962), the father of Japanese folklore study and author of Tono Monogatari ("Tales of Tono"). Some readers of ...

But for Japan the TPP deal breaker will be agriculture. Ironically, perhaps, what Yamashita and other analysts are saying is TPP or no TPP, Japanese agriculture must reform or perish.

Japan’s noncompetitive farming sector has been a roadblock to participation in free trade pacts with other countries. Dōmoto Hiroshi explains how Japanese agricultural policy has weakened the ...

Whither Japan aims to provide a Japanese perspective on how Japan is addressing its problems. But sometimes a foreign view is edifying. A recently published WTO study of Japanese agriculture ...

Thang praised Japan as a strategic partner, not only for its capital and technology but also for management experience ...

Japan's tariff negotiator said the US would reduce tariffs on Japanese goods by September 16. The tariff rate for goods from ...