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Japan's Agriculture Minister Koizumi Shinjiro says the country will step up efforts to export products made from rice. The ...
Japan's agriculture ministry is planning to encourage food companies to make the lists of ingredients on their products ...
President Trump has signed an executive order to implement a trade agreement with Japan that is expected to increase U.S.
Japan's Agriculture Minister Taku Eto, center, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Credit: AP What's happening to rice in Japan?
TOKYO: Japanese Agricultural Minister Shinjiro Koizumi urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to step down, Nikkei reports, a ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister resigned Wednesday over his inappropriate remark about buying rice as the public struggles with record high prices of the country's traditional staple ...
The order says Japan has agreed to invest $550 billion in the United States in projects that will be selected by the U.S.
The Japanese agriculture industry is using 5G-powered smart technology to reduce the worker shortage and make farming more efficient.
But for Japan the TPP deal breaker will be agriculture. Ironically, perhaps, what Yamashita and other analysts are saying is TPP or no TPP, Japanese agriculture must reform or perish.