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 ...

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

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

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that his envisioned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in June on ...