Japan’s noncompetitive farming sector has been a roadblock to participation in free trade pacts with other countries. Dōmoto Hiroshi explains how Japanese agricultural policy has weakened the ...

Chicago, May 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a research report Japan Precision Farming Market by Technology (Guidance, Remote Sensing and Variable Rate Technology), Offering, Application ...

Japan’s farm and general population are both getting smaller and older, and a pending 12-nation trade agreement — the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — will end government support and ...

Abe Shinzo is often considered Japan’s most powerful prime minister. But he faced steep political opposition in one of his primary goals.

TOKYO, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Japan has no intention of sacrificing its agricultural sector in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recent demand that Japan import more American rice, the country ...

Japanese rice growers are unable to compete with large scale industrial agriculture. While the process already begun allows corporate ownership, cooperatives are preventing it at the local level.

However, the circumstances surrounding agriculture are changing. Farming is undergoing a makeover for better or worse, as covered by Scilla Alecci in ‘ Japan: Agriculture the latest trend among ...

Japanese agriculture is famously operates under the protection of labyrinthian trade barriers and a 800 percent tariff on imported rice. Japanese consumers are said (by politicians and bureaucrats ...