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 ...

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 ...

Google is testing a cleaner lock screen layout for Pixels that repositions elements of the At a Glance widget. The date and weather are moved below or beside the clock, while the informational ...

Rice prices in Japan last month were almost twice what they were a year earlier, official data showed Friday, as core inflation accelerated in the world's number four economy. The price of the grain ...

TOKYO -- Core consumer prices in Japan rose 3.2% in March from a year earlier, as the cost of rice increased at its fastest pace in more than 50 years. Rice prices rose 92.1% in March, versus last ...

Solar panels can be seen above the rice plants. (Photo courtesy of University of Tokyo professor Yoichiro Kato) TOKYO -- If farmers install solar panels over their rice fields, their overall ...

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 ...

The Ernakulam district administration has announced works worth around ₹6 crore to protect the traditional Pokkali rice fields and prevent year-round flooding of the fields in saline water.

A Japanese bento chain has apologised after its “no more rice” April Fool’s prank triggered public anger. Takeaway rice bowl chain Hokka Hokka Tei admitted that it “showed a lack of ...

Rice consumption in Japan has more than halved in the past 60 years to about 50.9 kilogram in 2022, but the grain remains deeply ingrained in Japanese culture and its harvesting has shaped the ...

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