Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince ...

Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's 1957 visit highlights the importance of US-Japan relations, Asian-American friendship, and ...

Setting up a disaster management agency is one of the signature policies of the administration of Prime Minister Shigeru ...

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

Japan’s agriculture minister has resigned because of political fallout over his comment that he “never had to buy rice” ...

An off-the-cuff remark about never paying for rice has cost Japan’s agriculture minister his job, as pressure mounts on the government to solve the nation’s rice crisis.

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside ...

He said in his inaugural address after taking office Wednesday that his government will deal with potential North Korean ...

The remark came in the midst of a rice shortage that has infuriated voters. “Frankly, my supporters give me quite a lot of ...

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