Reports about fraudulent online rice shops to consumer affairs centers around the country spiked to 335 cases in April and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

Japan's farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi has returned to the political spotlight by launching a push to lower rice prices amid ...