Japan's matcha tea has exploded in popularity in the U.S, but President Donald Trump’s 15% tariffs on the country creates ...

Little Tokyo will welcome a new farmers market at the Isamu Noguchi Plaza at the Japanese American Cultural & Community ...

A 5 kilogram (11 pound) bag of rice cost 4,280 yen ($40 CAD) in May 2025 — double the price from a year earlier, according to ...

Little Tokyo is welcoming a new farmers market and it officially kicks off this Saturday! We're joined with a few of the ...

Wagyu is wagyu, right? While you can trust that anything labeled wagyu is going to be well marbled, it turns out the sourcing ...

Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm base.

I’m a Japanese farmer with big ambitions for myself as a farmer, for my fellow farmers in Japan, and for farmers around the world. A lot of farmers are born into the business, but not me.

Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop.

Longstanding protection of farmers has stymied efforts to bring more competition to agriculture, a growing number of Japanese are saying. The U.S. and Japan are holding trade talks this week in ...

Japanese farmers have always groaned under a heavy tax load. It is generally agreed that taxation in Japan has not been equitably distributed, that it weighs more heavily on the land than on the ...

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 ...

Thousands of Japanese farmers marched through central Tokyo on Wednesday to push the government not to join a regional free trade pact that will likely hit the nation's small farmers.