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 ...

With opposition parties holding a majority in the lower house, they managed to band together on Wednesday and push the ruling ...

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

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

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

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

The leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party and former Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda condemned Eto’s comments, ...

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

The opposition parties are stepping up their criticisms against Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba over his abrupt reversal ...