Japan’s famous akoya pearls have never been more in demand but, as seas warm and younger generations move to the city, the ...

JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village ...

Part of the global Wwoof programme, the Sho Farm near Tokyo lets visitors get their hands dirty and learn all about organic ...

The number of self-employed farmworkers in Japan plummeted 25.1% in 2025 compared to the last five years, reaching 1.02 ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...

SHONAI, Japan — This broad coastal plain near the Sea of Japan, blessed with abundant water and rich soil and checkered with rice paddies hued golden yellow in the early spring, is one of the ...

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 ...

MIKAWA, Japan (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that the ...

KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...