The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food.

Farm minister Taku Eto finally caved under the increasing heat for making light of soaring rice prices and shortages, ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

Grass puffers were observed laying eggs in a sea cove in the Tainamachi district of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. From April ...

KARACHI: The Miyazaki mango, renowned as the world's most expensive mango variety, has made its debut in Pakistan, ...

The Aug. 8 quake, which occurred at 4:42 p.m., registered a maximum intensity of lower 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture. The epicenter was around 30 kilometers ...

The earthquake occurred off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture on the main island of Kyushu at 4:42 p.m. local time (3:42 a.m. ET), at a depth of about 18 miles, according to the Japan ...

Japan's farm minister Taku Eto on Monday came under fire after saying that he does not need to buy rice because he receives ...

The BOJ is currently trimming its purchases by ¥400 billion ($2.8 billion) a quarter and is on course to reach monthly buying ...

Miyazaki Prefectural Police have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping a minor he met on a social networking site. According to police, Takuya Iwai, a resident of Takamatsu City in ...