The prefectural government of Niigata said Tuesday that it has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at ...

TOKYO -- After December's landslide re-election, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's program to revive the nation's economy is set to meet perhaps its stiffest challenge, the nation's sclerotic ...

TOKYO -- Japan's politically powerful farming lobby on Feb. 9 accepted plans by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to reform the agricultural sector, after the initial proposals were watered down.

Toru Yamano, chairperson of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-Zenchu), met with farm minister Norikazu ...

The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of ...

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 ...

Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...

Shingo Hashimoto buys champion and Breeders' Cup winner Just F Y I for $4.5 million for Northern Farm in Japan at Fasig-Tipton ...

Scientists in Japan have just created a new hybrid grape called Muscat Shiragai, blending a wild local variety with the ...

Japan has partnered with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on an initiative aimed at modernizing ...

Japan is finding it harder to attract foreign workers, even as the country needs more people for jobs. Many foreign workers ...