The farm sector’s influence is on the wane in Japan, although you wouldn’t know it from the TPP talks. In a meeting with his economic advisers on April 2, 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Abe clarified ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...

In April 2023, the Japanese government approved a new draft amendment to the Special Zones for the Structural Reform Act. The amendment allows corporations to own agricultural land nationally, based ...

Will Japan avoid economic and societal decline? I believe that the answer to this question depends, more than anything else, on free market reform of agriculture. It is a regrettable but seemingly ...

From this Thursday the 11 countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement--the United States and Japan most important among them--will meet again in Brunei. This session, ...

TOKYO -- How should Japan open its market to farm products from abroad while reforming the agricultural sector? Japan quickly should take steps to regain lost ground in its trade policy. Attempts to ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...