Japan’s oyster farms hit by 90% deaths due to rising sea temperatures and high salinity, threatening the country’s top ...

Japan’s famous akoya pearls have never been more in demand but, as seas warm and younger generations move to the city, the ...

Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, boasts the highest production of farmed oysters in the country. But the shellfish have ...

The number of self-employed farmworkers in Japan tumbled 25.1 percent in 2025 from five years ago to 1.02 million, marking the largest-ever decline, government data showed, as the sector that is ...

FUEFUKI - Japan's high-cost farmers, sheltered by prohibitive import tariffs, might appear to be most at risk from a trans-Pacific free-trade deal agreed this month, but they are instead making an ...

From the 1980s through the 1990s, large numbers of foreign nationals came to Japan. Economic growth and a booming economy ...

KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...

STORY: At 77 years old, Yasuyuki Kurosawa keeps tending his crops, in spite of record high temperatures and sweltering weather that suffocated Japan this summer. He is among Japan's increasingly ...

SHONAI, Japan — This broad coastal plain near the Sea of Japan, blessed with abundant water and rich soil and checkered with rice paddies hued golden yellow in the early spring, is one of the ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in partnership with the Japanese Government, has supported smallholder farmers ...

MIKAWA, Japan, Oct 27 (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 ...

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 ...