Like other industrial nations, Japan has been facing massive demographic challenges in its agriculture sector. An aging population and a lack of younger individuals entering the sector to replace them ...

Japan's agriculture ministry says nearly one-third of the country's farmland will lack the people needed to grow crops in 10 ...

TOKYO -- After December's landslide re-election, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's program to revive the nation's economy is set to meet perhaps its stiffest challenge, the nation's sclerotic ...

KYOTO, Japan (AFP) — The nondescript building on an industrial site near Kyoto gives little hint to the productivity inside: 30,000 heads of lettuce grow here daily, under artificial light and with ...

International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2022), pp. 209-224 (16 pages) The small scale of farms and scattered farmland plots in Japanese agriculture have hindered efficient farmland ...

Agriculture ministers of South Korea, China, and Japan held a meeting on Monday to discuss a trilateral mechanism in agriculture and farming, the first of its kind after seven years, in the ...

(MENAFN) Agriculture ministers from South Korea, China, and Japan convened on Monday in Incheon, near Seoul, for the first trilateral agriculture and farming dialogue in seven years, signaling a ...

Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan on a startup business visa in 2023. They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned it into a guesthouse. The couple have also started a homestead with a ...

The plum blossoms and toads are out a month early in the warmest Japanese winter for years. Nevertheless, Japan’s farmers, like farmers anywhere, worry about the weather—and everything else. Last week ...

Would you live in a so-called “ghost village” if you only had to pay $500 for a house? Here in the United States, you can barely even get a studio apartment for that price. So why are these akiya ...