Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

Rice prices hike by 98% despite Japan's imports for 1st time in years due to decreased production, with no projection for ...

Rice prices in Japan have doubled since last year partly due to supply shortages that began last year, triggering a national ...

Japan’s furor over rising rice prices is a reminder that state security is built on food.

Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...

Japan's government plans to expand sales of stockpiled rice under no-bid contracts to include eateries, food vendors and ...

To solve the problem of soaring rice prices, Japan’s turning to a classic retailer’s playbook: rebranding the old as “vintage ...

So Japan decided to pay its farmers subsidies to grow rice so there would always be enough. Then in 1999, it also slapped a tariff on imports of foreign rice of more than 700 percent.

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 ...

The price of rice at supermarkets across Japan fell for the third straight week. But the minister in charge says that is not ...

An off-the-cuff remark about never paying for rice has cost Japan’s agriculture minister his job, as pressure mounts on the government to solve the nation’s rice crisis. Taku Eto resigned on ...

Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where they would be offered at prices significantly lower than current levels, ...