By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain ...

Instead of adopting short-term populist responses to the cost of living, Japan needs a mature and sensible approach to fiscal ...

Four pandas had been returned to China from Japan in June. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Upper House election approaches, the LDP leans on crisis rhetoric while the opposition fails to offer a credible plan to fund ...

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng plans to visit Japan for a World Exposition event in Osaka on Friday, with Japanese lawmakers ...

Stringent security measures are in place to protect the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties as they make speeches in ...

Japan's major political parties are offering their visions for Japan in the decades ahead as they prepare for an upper house ...