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 ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...

The number of self-employed farmworkers in Japan plummeted 25.1% in 2025 compared to the last five years, reaching 1.02 ...

Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, boasts the highest production of farmed oysters in the country. But the shellfish have been dying in large numbers this season. Fisheries minister Suzuki Norikazu ...

As Japan grapples with the relentless spread of avian influenza, its poultry industry is under mounting pressure to maintain ...

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

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

After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushimas farmers work to overcome radiation stigma, despite the prefecture's track record of producing some of the most delicious produce in Japan.

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 ...