By bno - Jakarta bureau Japan is grappling with a major rice shortage, as stores struggle to keep up with demand and soaring ...

Japan is taking the rare steps of turning to imports and releasing part of its emergency stockpile of the grain as the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese supermarket rice prices rose for the 16th straight week and doubled from a year ago, the ...

Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a ...

WHEN a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had ...

The Japanese government on April 9 announced that it would release another 100,000 tons of stockpiled rice onto the market -- ...

Only 1.4% of Japanese government-stockpiled rice sold through auctions in March has reached retailers, an agriculture ...

Japan’s agriculture ministry said that till April 6, prices of 5 5-kilogram bag of rice stood at  4,214 yen, or about 29 ...

In Japan, rice is more than just a grain; it is central to daily meals, festivals, spiritual offerings, and even language ...

The Japan office of South Korea’s National Agricultural Cooperative Federation said it brought in and sold 2 tons of Korean ...

The Japanese government is considering expanding tariff-free imports of U.S.-grown rice as part of negotiations over higher ...

Rice prices at supermarkets across Japan continue to climb. The retail price nudged up for the 16th straight week, even ...