The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food.

Two Japanese air force members died shortly after their training aircraft crashed last week, the air force chief confirmed on ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

As rice is in short supply and prices have skyrocketed, the minister in charge of agricultural policy angered farmers and ...

The recent gaffe by farm minister Taku Eto has led me to ponder the delicate relationship between politics and humor, or more ...

Bank of Japan policy board member Asahi Noguchi struck a more cautious tone about the pace of the bank’s future interest-rate ...

Japan's farm minister Taku Eto on Monday came under fire after saying that he does not need to buy rice because he receives ...

Grass puffers were observed laying eggs in a sea cove in the Tainamachi district of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. From April ...

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force agency continued its search Thursday for two crew members and their plane which crashed ...

Of the seven semiconductor fabs completed in Japan during fiscal 2023–2024 (April 2023 to March 2025), only three had begun ...

The BOJ is currently trimming its purchases by ¥400 billion ($2.8 billion) a quarter and is on course to reach monthly buying ...

Meet the 'Egg of the Sun,' the world's most expensive mango, priced higher than diamonds. Know what makes this rare mango so ...