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

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

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

Takehisa Okamura, right, president of Kinou Sozai Co. who developed a bread freshness-keeping bag called "Pan Oishii-mama," ...

An increasing number of Japanese traveling abroad are bringing rice back home recently amid soaring prices of the staple food in the country.

This surprising change in Japan's protectionist approach comes as imports from South Korea and the US grow, domestic ...

Japan's longstanding rejection of foreign-grown rice is eroding in the face of skyrocketing prices. Case in point: The ...

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 ...

Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise for 15 consecutive weeks despite the release of crops stockpiled by the ...