Japan's supermarket operators have been strengthening sales of cheaper, foreign-grown rice, offering another choice to ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain. It ...

The government depends on the cooperatives to get the additional Japanese rice to the market, and they’re taking their sweet ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...

As rice prices remain high in Japan amid shortages, imported rice has become a more common sight in supermarkets. While it is ...

Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent. This happened as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, ...

The Japanese government plans to curb retail prices of stockpiled rice to some 2,000 yen per 5 kilograms, agriculture ...

Japan's new farm minister, Shinjiro Koizumi (pic) said on Saturday (May 24) that the government plans to sell its stockpiled ...

The price of rice in Japan in April this year increased by 98.4% compared to the same period last year, Azernews reports.

New data has revealed just how much Japan is being drubbed by the current global economic uncertainty. Inflation spiked at a two-year high in April as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on the ...

TOKYO --Japan's newly appointed agriculture minister on Friday pledged to quickly bring down rice prices to 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms, promising relief to inflation-hit consumers. The government ...

Government data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation jumped to 3.5% in April, its highest in more than 2 years. The rise ...