The government will release its stockpiled rice for use in processed foods and beverages such as miso, rice crackers, sake ...

Well-proportioned wooden tubs, called “oke” in Japanese, are built with unparalleled precision, slowly and steadily crafting each one by hand with great care.

Forget the glossy brochures and the long, serpentine theme park queues. Forget Mickey Mouse, Ginza flagships, or cosplay go-karts weaving through traffic. This isn’t that Tokyo. This is the Tokyo ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Japan is not importing U ...

Prime minister stresses that Japan is importing US rice from California, counters Trump assertion that Japan ‘won’t take our ...

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

In speeches on the second day of the official campaign period for the Upper House election, party leaders focused on issues ...

There was some levity during the visit as an excited group of Japanese schoolchildren were left star struck after they waved ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...