An advisory panel to Japan's farm ministry proposed on Friday a target to triple tourist food consumption to 4.5 trillion yen ...

Unexpected detours, cultural wanderings and happy supermarket sprees are all part of the fun. Here's what our Japan road trip ...

The mayor’s answer was much more representative of the earnest, if puzzled, search for democracy that is going on nowadays in rural Japan.

The government plans to expand eligibility to include people taking up jobs in agriculture, medicine and welfare, as well as ...

The average land price rose for the first time in 33 years in more than half of surveyed rural areas in Japan, government data showed Tuesday, as the nation's economic recovery extends to asset values ...

As a student, she had visited other rural areas in Japan being revitalized through the creative use of their akiya as part of efforts to attract new residents. But at the time, she says ...

Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya – sit empty, waiting for a second life. With ...