Japan's Agriculture:
- Total Area: 377, 915 sq km
- Land Area: 364, 485 sq km
- Water Area: 13,430 sq km
- Climate description: Varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north.
- Terrain description: Mostly rugged and mountainous.
- Arable Land Use: 11.26%
- Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.81%
- Irrigated Land: 25, 00 sq km (2010)
- Total Renewable Water Resources: 430 c u km (2011)
- Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 90.04 c u km/yr (20%/ 18%/ 62%)
- Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 714.3 c u m/yr (2007)
- Natural Hazards description: Many dormant and some active volcanoes; about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors but occasional severe earthquakes) every year; tsunamis; typhoons.
- Environmental Current Issues: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Maritime Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling.
- Total Labor Force: 65.62 million (2013 est.)
- % of Labor Force in Agriculture: 3.9%
- Agricultural Products description: Rice is by far the most important crop in Japan and planted on the best agricultural land. Other crops grown in Japan include soybeans, wheat, barley, and a large variety of fruit and vegetables.