Japanese rice and American rice are genuinely different varieties — substantially distinct genetics, growing ...

The Tenpō Famine of the 1830s was one of the worst in Japanese history, with the poor weather causing escalating rice prices as a major cause. To better understand how historical weather anomalies ...

Oishii is focusing on using its robotic vertical farming technology to grow pesticide-free, non-GMO strawberries ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Sri Lanka in 2026 finds itself at a dangerous crossroads. Its commanding position in the Indian Ocean should be a strategic asset, yet it remains a vulnerability. The civil war ended in 2009 and the ...

Continuing our collection of interviews with panelists who will speak following the premiere of Strawberry Fields Forever—a ...

For the first time in 25 years, three Japanese directors vie for the Palme d'Or as 10 producers work the Cannes Film Market ...

Japan International Cooperation Agency plans to provide 35 million cedis ($3.09 million) to support Ghana’s rice industry. The funding will finance a modern rice seed production facility in northern ...

New hybrid seed technology from Kibbutz Ruhama boosts cannabis cultivation yields by 17.5-fold and cuts waste. Potential for ...

Global rice production is set to decline for the first time in a decade, tightening supplies of one of the world’s major food ...

There's a city in India's Uttar Pradesh that is known as the "Mango Capital of the World". Among the many varities of mangoes ...