Facing escalating public grievances over soaring rice prices and with a crucial national election looming this summer, Prime ...

A UC Davis professor's research and counseling contributed to understanding a new biological mechanism that may result in ...

The Japanese government has started releasing low-cost rice from its emergency stockpiles as market prices soar to record ...

Rice moves through a multi-layered supply chain in Japan before reaching consumers, a structure that drives up costs and ...

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 ...

The average price of a 60kg bag of rice harvested in 2024 has reached an all-time high of more than ¥26,400 ($184). While Japan has not run out of supply, it has yet to recover from a poor 2023 ...

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

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has assembled a top-level task force to investigate the ongoing rice crisis. He is ...

Japan will sell additional stockpiles of rice at a fixed price with an aim to halve soaring costs, newly-appointed ...

Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan’s discharge of treated but ...

The successful export of this first certified staple is the result of tireless collaboration among farmers, cooperatives, ...

Japan's agriculture minister has pitched a plan to reduce the price of rice as consumers struggle with soaring costs.