Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. As its farmers get too old to till the soil, Japan grapples with a question that many industrialized ...

TOKYO — In an upscale neighborhood where Japanese buy their handbags and smartphones, furious farmers drove their tractors down the main road last week in their latest protest against a controversial ...

As its farmers get too old to work the land, Japan is grappling with a question now facing many industrialized nations: Who will grow our food in the future? Reporter Sam Eaton presents the latest in ...

Supermarket prices fell for a fifth straight week, to 3,801 yen in the seven days to June 22, the government has been releasing emergency rice from its stockpile to sell for about 2,000 yen per 5 kg.

The average age of a farmer in Japan is now 67, and this is particularly a problem given the nation's dwindling population. With a low birth rate and almost one-third of the population over age 65, ...

YABU, Japan — When tending to her rice paddies in this remote, mountainous part of Japan became too arduous, Sakae Tanigaki brought in some young guys to help out. Now, a bunch of 70-somethings do ...

As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agriculture ministers meet in Japan’s northern ...

The Japanese government is asking people not to eat spinach, parsley and other produce grown near the damaged power plant because some is tainted with radiation. Dairy farmers are also dumping their ...

At 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Katsuyuki Kuchiki, a 63 year-old farmer, was trimming peach trees in an orchard tucked into a valley in Kunimi-cho, the northernmost town in Fukushima Prefecture. "Can ...