Canola blossoms are at their best in rice paddies in the city of Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture. The scene looks like a ...

“Before that happens, we need to change Japan’s misguided agriculture policies.” Over the past five decades, Mr. Kanno said, about a third of the rice paddies in his town have been abandoned.

As rice prices surge in Japan, a government survey shows farms plan to expand acreage for the crop, which should alleviate ...

The craft flew over a 1000-square-meter rice paddy, scattering seeds treated beforehand ... Alarmed by the prospect of Japan’s agriculture vanishing, Takamoto decided to join hands with Nobeoka ...

High duties on imports often leave Japan with a surplus of rice and the government subsidizes alternative farming on old paddies. Nonetheless, the wealth made on the exchange in the heady days of ...

Japan is famous for combining ancient traditions with futuristic cities, but it also has a surprising side. Scattered across the country are places that look like they belong somewhere else entirely: ...

The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that ... as a collaboration between hackerfarm and Digital Garage in Japan. I was contacted by one of the heads of FutureLab, an internal R&D ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan.

New-crop rice has appeared in Japanese supermarkets, but has failed to alleviate steep and continued inflation...Read More ...