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

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

In Japan, rice is everything. From sushi to sweets, the staple is part of every meal. However, prices have been rising ...

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

When Genki Sakurai began working for his family’s rice farm 17 years ago, there were more than a dozen rice farmers in his neighborhood in the city of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. Now ...

Japan's agriculture minister says more stockpiled rice will be released every month until the summer. He also says the third auction of 100,000 tons of stockpiles will be held later this month.

Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are at least six ways in Japanese to describe the grain, from unhusked to ready to eat. It’s so popular that McDonald’s there added a burger ...

Despite the book being 47 years old it should be required reading by all soil scientists, students of agriculture and farmers. The book is inexpensive and still in print.

The Japanese government will release additional stockpiled rice every month until the end of July to stabilize soaring prices, farm minister Taku Eto said Wednesday. The announcement comes as price ...

From balanced meals to mindful living, Japan’s way of life holds secrets the rest of the world could benefit from adopting. Rice isn’t just food in Japan—it’s a national treasure.

It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are ...