there's a kitchen invader that's much smaller and even more difficult to spot: the rice weevil. This tiny bugger can easily infest even brand-new bags of rice with hardly any warning at all - here ...

Inside the Saitama warehouse, large bags of rice weighing one ton ... the new policy requires the ministry to buy back the same amount of rice released in these situations within a year.

An increasing number of Japanese traveling abroad are bringing rice back home recently amid soaring ... shows the average price for a 5-kilogram bag of rice was 4,217 yen, or about 30 dollars ...

At the beginning of March 2025, a 5kg bag of rice cost an average ... retailers are also accused of holding back supplies. Around 180,000 tons more rice was collected in the 2024 harvest compared ...