U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice ...

Reversing decades of policy, Tokyo is now trying to encourage more rice production. It’s set a target of exporting about 385,000 U.S. tons by 2030 - an eightfold jump on last year’s level.

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims is the country’s unwillingness to buy American-grown rice.

President Trump suggested Monday there won’t be a trade deal with Japan, sharing that the trading partner will be getting a ...

Trump's strong statement was made amid the deadlock in ministerial-level trade negotiations between the two countries. He ...

President Donald Trump announced he will unilaterally set terms of trade with Japan instead of finalizing a negotiated deal ...

Data from Japan's agriculture ministry revealed that the average price of a five-kg bag of rice had fallen to 3,920 yen ($27.03) for the week ending June 15, which marked the first time that rice ...

Vertical solar panels, while now a rare sight on farmland in Japan, in this case a rice paddy, look set to transform the ...

The new policy, if successful, would prevent a recurrence by allocating 350,000 tons of rice for export in 2030 – an eight-fold jump from 45,000 tonnes in 2024 – that could be redirected to ...