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

Taku Eto acknowledges making ‘an extremely inappropriate remark at a time when citizens are suffering from soaring rice ...

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

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 ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday sacked farm minister Taku Eto over a controversial remark that sparked ...

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

Representative Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the CDP, said Wednesday that Eto's comments "showed no consideration for the people's lives, who are suffering as rice prices soar, and they rubbed the ...

CDP head Yoshihiko Noda will urge Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to dismiss Eto at a parliamentary debate Wednesday. If the prime minister rejects the demand, the five parties will consider ...

Yoshihiko Noda, the leader of the party, said Mr Eto had “rubbed the public the wrong way” and was unfit to oversee rice pricing and distribution as agriculture minister. “He is not the righ ...