Japan. “Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in ...

“We couldn’t keep the farm going ... on this is the 10-year KOME-DOKORO (or ‘rice producing region’) COI-NEXT project funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency which began in ...

Japan's agriculture Minister Tetsushi Sakamoto said during a press conference on Tuesday that "this rice shortage situation will be resolved sooner or later." The ministry held a meeting with ...

School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University: "In Japan, rice farming is primarily family-run. Because these family businesses lack the resources of larger corporations, they often accept lower ...

The history of rice farming overlaps the history of Japan. In premodern days, taxes were paid in rice. The grain also served as a currency and a financial index. There were times when skyrocketing ...

Hiroaki Asakura, a farmer in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, learned how to be a green thumb from his father. This meant ...

Rice is in short supply at supermarkets in Japan. During late August ... then the word from the top should remove any lingering doubts. Agriculture Minister Sakamoto Tetsushi told a recent ...

Seito Saibara was engaged by the city of Houston to evaluate the rice industry in Texas. Japanese farmers had been invited to ...

Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family's ...

The study, led by Japan's International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, highlights the potential of rice-ratoon ...

ON November 27, Japan turned more than 300 metric tons of rice to support families affected by calamities, including the El Niño phenomenon and severe tropical storms, which include Severe ...