Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff negotiations with the United States, its top ...

Donald Trump is pressuring Tokyo to buy Californian rice, as a national shortage exposes the country’s deep-rooted resistance ...

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US President Donald Trump’s latest gripe is that Japan apparently isn’t queueing up to buy enough American rice ...

That 700% figure, which Japan’s farm minister called “incomprehensible,” is not quite true. In 1995, after facing a rice crisis in 1993 and mounting pressure from the world to open up its ...

The price of American rice has plummeted 37 percent in the last year. Last May, it was around $19 per hundred pounds (hundredweight, or cwt), or $8.50 a bushel. This May, it hit a low of $12 cwt ...

Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff talks with the United States, its top negotiator said ...

American rice imports rise. Japan has, in fact, imported historically high volumes of US rice in recent months as domestically grown rice has skyrocketed in price since 2024, hurting consumers.

Under a "minimum access" agreement within the World Trade Organization, Japan has a 770,000-ton tariff-free import quota for rice, of which up to 100,000 tons is for staple rice.