A Japanese company is opening the first farm run almost entirely by robots. Spread, a sustainable vegetable producer, plans to allocate almost all of the labor involved in growing thousands of heads ...

Yoshinoya Farm Fukushima in northeastern Japan has undergone many trials and tribulations in recent years. The business employs 18 people growing cabbages, onions, and rice. Last year, water supplies ...

OSAKA -- Japanese machinery maker Kubota has a new organization for its farm equipment business and a new chief executive, ...

Like other industrial nations, Japan has been facing massive demographic challenges in its agriculture sector. An aging population and a lack of younger individuals entering the sector to replace them ...

The robot overlords have come to the farm. Earlier this month, Japanese tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer Kubota provided the world with a preview of what the future of farming might look like.

Japan could face higher tariffs on about 400 farm and food import items if the passage of a tax bill to extend provisional ...