Japan’s famous akoya pearls have never been more in demand but, as seas warm and younger generations move to the city, the ...

The number of self-employed farmworkers in Japan plummeted 25.1% in 2025 compared to the last five years, reaching 1.02 ...

JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively ...

TOKYO -- In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village ...

SHONAI, Japan — This broad coastal plain near the Sea of Japan, blessed with abundant water and rich soil and checkered with rice paddies hued golden yellow in the early spring, is one of the ...

MIKAWA, Japan (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that the ...

KAMIMOMI, Japan — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than usual ...

MIKAWA, Japan, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that ...