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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This year's first auction for rice as staple food will take place on June 27 instead of the usual September, agriculture ...