Tag Archives: Japan

Nihonshu or rice wine (more popularly known as sake) has been an integral part of the Japanese cuisine for more than two thousand years. More than just...

A weather-rice-nutrient decision support app is helping farmers ensure yield in rainfed areas. (Photo: K. Hayashi) Unreliable weather can make or break...

AKIRA TANAKA (left), head of IRRI’s Plant Physiology Department (1962-66), confers with the Institute’s first breeder Peter Jennings during the...

Scientists from Japan and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have discovered a rice gene that, in preliminary testing, increased production...

(Photo: Yusaku Uga) An international team led by the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS) in Japan, which includes scientists from the...

In Asia, many people eat rice three times a day. For them, rice is life; but, in this Japanese fable, a “holy man” seems to have given up eating...

Mr. Norio Matsuda, chief representative of JICA, and Mr. Norman Macdonald, director for IRRI’s management services, at the signing of the MOU for...

Japan has long defended and quite successfully managed to maintain sovereignty in its international agricultural trade policies and agreements. Through...

The author (center) with two symposium staff clad in kimonos. (Photo: Furya Takashi) Maybe I was hallucinating but I thought I saw a pair of socks among...

Mysterious crop circles of incredible complexity that appear overnight, or a baseball park as in the 1989 film Field of dreams—who knows what you might...