U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi ...

Under cherry blossoms in a park in central Tokyo, more than 4,000 farmers, wearing straw hats ... price of rice. Anxieties over the cost of food and other staples have weighed on Japanese ...

That has led to less and less rice produced each year as the diets of Japanese consumers overtime have expanded to other staples like bread and potatoes. But the policy meant to protect farmers ...