(Mainichi/Kengo Miura) TOKYO -- The nationwide average price of rice in Japan recently marked the first decline in 18 weeks following the release of government stockpiles, but an expert expects ...

A Japan-based company affiliated with South Korean agricultural cooperatives says it has imported rice from South Korea to Japan. The company, established 26 years ago, says it imported two tons ...

TOKYO -- Japan's private sector is expected to import roughly 20 times more rice in fiscal 2025 than the year before, as a historic surge in the price of the staple grain leads restaurants and ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A senior official of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ruled out including talks on an expansion of U.S. rice imports in tariff negotiations between Tokyo and ...

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 American variety. The price of the ...

In Japan, the ruling government is weighing whether or not to put rice on the table. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have forced countries around the world—most recently announced, China—to take a ...

Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a foreign variety. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno John Yoon reported from a ...

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 American variety. The price of ...

NHK has learned that the Japanese government plans to relax the bidding conditions for the purchase of its stockpiled rice in a bid to avoid shortages of the staple food. Agriculture ministry ...

A total of 100,164 tons of the government-stockpiled rice was sold in a third auction at an average price of ¥20,302 per 60 kilograms, down ¥420 from the second auction, the agriculture ministry ...