The agriculture ministry plans to export 350,000 tons of rice in 2030, nearly eight times the amount in 2024, as part of a ...

SAITAMA -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to surge since last summer's "rice ... A farmer managing 14 hectares of rice ...

Last year’s heat wave and an influx in foreign visitor numbers to Japan are seen as the underlying ... a policy of reducing the number of rice paddies by, for example, turning them into fields ...

The Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama, which came to an end on November 24, 2024, was the latest international art festival to bring cutting-edge contemporary art to a rural area of Japan.

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan.

“Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in the ...

Japan's rice wholesalers are taking drastic action in light of soaring prices. They are striking deals for this year's harvest, with farmers who are yet to even plant the seeds.

President Donald Trump’s administration hit out at Japan’s elevated rice tariffs, signaling that the grain and Tokyo will likely be targeted as the US seeks to apply reciprocal tariffs in the coming ...