Political maneuvering intensified Tuesday amid suggestions by ruling party officials that a no-confidence motion against ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

Ruling and opposition parties have essentially shelved talks in the Diet on whether to grant imperial family status to ...

Unless Japan experiences a substantial expansion in tax revenue at current rates, tax increases inevitably await. Securing ...

A viewpoint of how to reform agricultural policy in the medium to long term, not just taking emergency measures to reduce rice prices, must not be forgotten.

Leaders of three major opposition parties all showed up Wednesday to a House of Representatives committee meeting, where they ...

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has indicated he will proceed with talks with the United States over tariff measures while ...

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

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

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

Japanese farm minister Taku Eto’s remarks on rice, deemed insensitive by many, cost him his position, forcing him to resign owing to public backlash. Announcing his resignation at the prime minister’s ...

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