Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a ...

Japan is taking the rare steps of turning to imports and releasing part of its emergency stockpile of the grain as the ...

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

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 ...

Japan's rice price surge began in the summer of 2023 due to extreme weather affecting harvests, rising demand from tourists, ...

In Japan, rice is more than just a grain; it is central to daily meals, festivals, spiritual offerings, and even language ...

Japan’s agriculture ministry said that till April 6, prices of 5 5-kilogram bag of rice stood at  4,214 yen, or about 29 ...

It’s a sharp contrast to 1993, when the Thai rice the Japanese government imported during an acute shortage was largely ...