Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high: in March the cost ...

Japan’s release of rice stockpiles has so far failed to stem soaring prices for the domestic staple, leaving consumers still ...

Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...

Will the government's release of 210,000 tons of stockpiled rice ease supermarket prices that have more than doubled over the past year?

Japan will soon have almost no farmers. Can Anyone on JT identify a Rice Farmer in Japan who has even one child who's going to stay in the business? There's your answer, it's the obvious truth nobody ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an ...

Japan's government began auctioning its rice stockpile last month - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Japan's government began auctioning its rice stockpile last month ...

Japan's rice prices rose to a record average of 4,214 yen per 5 kilograms, more than double the level a year earlier, the government said Monday, suggesting that recent stockpile releases have had ...

The retail price for five kilograms of rice in the last week of March was 4,206 yen ($29), up 104.5 percent year-on-year. Japan is aiming to boost its rice exports almost eightfold to 350,000 ...