As rice prices remain high in Japan amid shortages, imported rice has become a more common sight in supermarkets. While it is ...

Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where ...

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak ...

And we know that Japanese consumers are going to appreciate a product that meets all the standards of excellence that they ...

Supermarket giant Aeon began selling an 80-20 American-Japanese blend that’s about 10% cheaper than domestic rice after a test sales-run proved a hit. Fast-food chain Matsuya and restaurant ...

New farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on a TV program Friday night that the government plans to sell its stockpiled rice to retailers through direct contracts, aiming to make it available in stores ...

Japan will release an additional 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile by July to address a nationwide ...

Japan's new farm minister, Shinjiro Koizumi (pic) said on Saturday (May 24) that the government plans to sell its stockpiled ...

To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach supermarket shelves. Anger over that was part of the reason the agriculture ...