Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei blamed worsening traffic snarls for delays in expanding its base in southwestern Japan, even while a parallel US effort races ...

Hirotaka Kuriyama / The Yomiuri ShimbunDefense Minister Gen Nakatani, right, shakes hands with Australian Defense Minister ...

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 ...

Japan’s Wataru Hisasue and Masaya Kamei won the second and fifth prize, respectively, in the piano category of the Queen ...

In Seoul, you can call a city hotline at 3 a.m. just to say you feel lonely. You can walk into a “Maeum (Korean for 'heart') ...

A survey released Friday suggested that 41.0% of large-scale rice farmers in Japan expect retail prices for rice harvested in ...

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

According to the Daily Observer, Bangladesh is on the World Bank's Food Inflation Index Red List, and has been for two years ...

India should also explore other avenues to reduce crude oil imports. Ethanol production can be increased through alternate, ...

U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi ...