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

The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food.

Japan has been looking to replace its older T-4 jet trainer, as Tokyo requires more modern aircraft to prepare pilots for the advanced F-35s and the ...

Two Japanese air force members died shortly after their training aircraft crashed last week, the air force chief confirmed on ...

Of the seven semiconductor fabs completed in Japan during fiscal 2023–2024 (April 2023 to March 2025), only three had begun ...

Eto's controversial comments came when his ministry decided to release rice from emergency stockpiles to help curb prices that have roughly doubled from a year earlier due to a poor harvest, and the ...

The environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding system can successfully detect 83 of the 85 genera of reef-building corals known ...

With Japan facing a significant labor shortage ... including a bell pepper farm in Shintomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, on the main southern island of Kyushu. The farm is run by Agrist, a startup ...

A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without causing ... was deep under the Hyuganada sea off Miyazaki Prefecture. It sparked concern the temblor could be a precursor ...

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Friday that body parts possibly of a missing crew member of a Self-Defense Force trainer jet that crashed into Lake Iruka in central Japan have been found.