Japan's Agriculture Minister Koizumi Shinjiro has announced that he intends to enter the race to become president of the ...

Koizumi is expected to lean on his recent efforts to curb soaring rice prices, a politically sensitive issue that could help ...

Japanese farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday signaled his intention to run in the Oct. 4 presidential election of the ...

TOKYO - Japan's veteran lawmaker and fiscal dove Sanae Takaichi said on Thursday she would run in the ruling party's ...

Japan’s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi says he will run in the ruling party leadership race as the Liberal Democratic Party looks for a successor capable of turning around its prospects and ...

Japan's agriculture minister and his Vietnamese counterpart have drawn up a cooperation plan. Koizumi Shinjiro sat down with Vietnam's minister of agriculture and environment, Tran Duc Thang, in Tokyo ...

Thang praised Japan as a strategic partner, not only for its capital and technology but also for management experience ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...

Yesterday the strongest typhoon in some 50 years wreaked havoc and minor destruction along the entire Japanese archipelago, from Kyushu to Hokkaido, making a direct hit on Tokyo. Forgive me for being ...

DESPITE her recent remarkable progress in industry and commerce, Japan is still predominantly an agricultural country. The major part of her national net production is drawn from agriculture, and more ...

Khreisat emphasised the longstanding ties and solid friendship between the two countries, commending Japan’s leading role in ...

From this Thursday the 11 countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement--the United States and Japan most important among them--will meet again in Brunei. This session, ...