Local governments in Japan are carrying out "rice aid" programs for residents amid soaring rice prices, mostly using national ...

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

The government decided on Friday to prohibit the reselling of rice purchased at retail shops to ensure that rice reserves ...

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)--Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi suggested Friday that his ministry will drastically review ...

Japan's agriculture ministry says that sales of stockpiled rice will widen to stores across the country on Friday.

A guide to Japan’s rice from past harvests, currently being released from government stockpiles in a bid to tackle high ...

The Japanese government is aiming to lower rice prices by selling further supplies of stockpiled rice directly to retailers.

Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

Government leaders in Japan released emergency rice supplies as rising prices and poor harvest increase political pressure.

Japan will hold a tender for tariff-free imported staple rice this month, earlier than the usual auction in September, to ...

The shortage has continued to bite despite the government releasing 300,000 tons of rice from its strategic reserve three ...