Rice is the foundation of Japan's culture and food security, and a long-term strategy to ensure stable supply should be the government's new top priority.
Holding lawmakers individually accountable for public funds is one priority of the Diet. National security and imperial succession matters need attention too.
Climate change is the single greatest existential threat facing the Blue Pacific and the Indian Ocean, putting people and entire regional ecosystems at risk.
"Our goal is to make agriculture an inspirational industry," explains NTT AgriTechnology Senior VP and COO Kobayashi about their new urban farming model.
While seeking global food and economic security, leaders at the G7 Hiroshima Summit expressed strong opposition to the use of force or coercion anywhere.
As the G7 Hiroshima Summit came to a close, a key country in the focus of G7 leaders was China, including its economic opportunism and aggression.
Bringing the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit to a close, PM Kishida called on all those assembled in his hometown to "believe in humanity and demand peace."
Catch day two's highlights and surprises at the G7 Hiroshima Summit as the leaders' communique is released early amid focus on the Global South and Ukraine.
Lessons in sustainability at NAMMCO showed why the whaling issue is not easily tidied away by declaring whether one is "for" or "against" hunting the animals.
Food security concerns and new guidelines for raising crickets are serving as a tailwind for the growth of the edible insect market.
Russia and China have made Africa deeply dependent on them through massive debt, arms supplies, and food security over the decades.
