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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 2024, Japan revised its Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas to prioritise food security amid global instability. Despite the amendment, Japanese agricultural policy continues to focus on ...

The Japanese government aims to convert at least 25% of all its farmland to organic by 2050, a significant jump from just 0.5% in 2020. Researchers found that urban and semi-urban farmers in Tokyo ...

I want to be the most influential farmer in the world. The first step is for me to become the most influential farmer in my native Japan. As farmers, we are professional businessmen and women who ...

TAICHUNG, Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As Japan enters a super-aged society, the agricultural sector is facing a serious decline in its workforce. To address the issue of labor shortages in ...

Solar sharing, or agrivoltaics, is a system where solar panels and farming are on the same land. It's growing in popularity among farmers in Japan as a way to generate money and adopt sustainable ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? Perhaps no country fits the description of Robert Putnam’s “two-level game” theory better than Japan. Putnam describes international ...

New research into ancient Japanese rice farming suggests that technological development does not always mean the abandonment of cultural practices, particularly culinary traditions. The research is ...