Japan farm minister resigns after saying he’s never bought rice amid soaring prices - Taku Eto acknowledges making ‘an ...

Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, or Farms Taki Eto resigned Wednesday after his comments over the ...

Japan's agriculture minister Eto Taku is stepping down over controversial remarks he made about rice. He submitted his ...

Former Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi was appointed the new agriculture minister on Wednesday following the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Wednesday to take necessary steps to lower rice prices that have doubled over the past ...

Yoshihiko Noda won the presidency of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on promises to shift the main opposition party toward centrist conservatism, but that move could alienate its ...

The ruling coalition parties are considering an economic stimulus package, with a focus on whether to cut the consumption tax ...

Japan's upper house election seems set to rehash a decades-old debate on consumption tax, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg ...

Reducing the unpopular consumption tax has become a major election issue for the first time since it was first instituted in ...