Technology From farming to medicine, rural Japan goes high-tech to get by Businesses develop solutions to help deal with aging and depopulation ...

With hunger rising for yet another year across the African continent, both leaders emphasized that governments and ...

Yoshinoya Farm Fukushima in northeastern Japan has undergone many trials and tribulations in recent years. The business employs 18 people growing cabbages, onions, and rice. Last year, water ...

A former iron sand mine transformed into a terraced agro-silvo-pastoral system, a landscape of stone-walled citrus orchards ...

One of the many imponderables of the recent Japanese general election is which party got the vote of farmers. The LDP won 45 out of 59 rural single-member district (SMD) seats (76 percent) with ...

Facing declining birthrates and rural depopulation, hundreds of “marginal villages” could vanish in a few decades. But some small towns are fighting back.

Korean Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mi-ryung, right, shakes hands with her Japanese counterpart, Shinjiro Koizumi, during their bilateral meeting in Incheon, on Aug. 11, in ...

When Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed this week to wring more gains from the weak yen, which has become instead a source of economic pain, he was pinning his hopes on the likes of ...