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

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

After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushimas farmers work to overcome radiation stigma, despite the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel shakes hands with a local vendor at the farmers market at Camp Hansen, a U.S. Marine Corps base on a southern Japanese island of Okinawa, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.

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 ...