Rather than issue a formal statement, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is said to be planning to release a “personal message” to ...

Japanese farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after remarks he made about rice triggered a firestorm of criticism ...

secretary-general of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, whose poor poll ratings are due in part to high food prices, chastised the ...

TOKYO -- Japan's agriculture minister resigned Wednesday over his inappropriate remark about buying rice as the public ...

Six former presidents of the Science Council of Japan issued a joint statement calling for the withdrawal of a controversial ...

A knife-wielding man arrested in Tokyo this week wanted to warn parents nationwide that tough love can ruin their children, citing his own miserable childhood, Japanese media reported Friday.

Japan’s farm minister Taku Eto stepped down on Wednesday, domestic media reported, following public outrage over his comments ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...

In Japan, Prime ... from the University of Cambridge. Parul Bakshi is a Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Fellow at the Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo, and a ...

TOKYO — Japan's Agriculture Minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after remarks he made about rice triggered a firestorm of ...