The food we eat every day is produced all over the country, in places whose climate and land suit it, and it keeps the nation fed. Rice, vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy, and fish each come from the areas that match them. People who grow rice or work at sea plan every step and work together, improve their skills with better varieties and machines, and take up newer methods such as fish farming. They also work on how food is moved, priced, and delivered, so that safe, good food reaches the places where we live. At the same time, food production has problems: less of our food is grown at home, we depend on imports, there are fewer workers, and fish stocks have to be looked after. Keeping food safe, and finding ways of producing it that can go on, both matter.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said on September 30 that some vegetables will cost more than usual in October. The ministry is the part of the Japanese government that looks after farming and food.
A passenger tried to bring goat meat into Japan. The meat had a dangerous virus in it.
Scientists in Japan have found that the way chickens live changes the taste of their eggs. A group led by Professor Tsuyoshi Shinmura of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, a university in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, announced the finding on August 31, 2026.