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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earnest, sometimes frantic and desperate, appeals are being made to the fledgling Noda government for new policies to revive economic growth and, critically, to forestall further “hollowing out” of ...

To provide accurate and timely information for agriculture and forestry development plans, particularly in gathering agricultural statistics, could greatly benefit Laos and other ASEAN member ...

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 ...