Like other industrial nations, Japan has been facing massive demographic challenges in its agriculture sector. An aging population and a lack of younger individuals entering the sector to replace them ...

In 2024, Japan revised its Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas to prioritise food security amid global instability. Despite the amendment, Japanese agricultural policy continues to focus on ...

A rural infrastructure project funded by the government of Japan has improved irrigation access and rural connectivity for farming communities in northern Laos, benefiting more than 1,200 households ...

Japan's aging workforce and declining population are having significant effects on the country's agriculture industry. The 2020 Census of Agriculture and Forestry found that between 2015 and 2020, the ...

Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could spread through East Asia and Europe as global fertility rates fall—according ...

When Lee Xian Jie first stepped foot in the traditional farmhouse located in Ryujin-mura, a village in Japan's Wakayama prefecture, it was "quite rundown" — with floors so rickety they shook beneath ...

The plum blossoms and toads are out a month early in the warmest Japanese winter for years. Nevertheless, Japan’s farmers, like farmers anywhere, worry about the weather—and everything else. Last week ...

Azuma Farm Koiwai, a boutique countryside retreat by Azumi Japan and East Japan Railway Company, opens April 23, 2026 at Koiwai Farm in Iwate Prefecture. Surrounded by views of Mount Iwate, the nature ...