SAITAMA -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to surge since last summer's "rice ... consumers are wondering if this will ...

Doubts remain over the reported 2024 harvest of 7.34 million tons, as many farmers claim their yields were lower due to ...

Takashi Takanashi, head of the Spice House Co., a company based in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, specialising in wholesale ...

The Japanese government plans to increase the country's rice exports by nearly eight-fold to 350,000 tons, worth 92.2 billion ...

It’s as if six billion bowls of rice went missing.” What’s happening with rice? Its price is a raging fever. Five kilograms ...

[TOKYO] Japan wants to boost its rice exports almost eightfold by 2030, a ministry official said on Thursday, despite currently suffering a domestic shortage of the grain. The country’s rice ...

President Donald Trump’s administration hit out at Japan’s elevated rice tariffs, signaling that the grain and Tokyo will likely be targeted as the US seeks to apply reciprocal tariffs in the coming ...

The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...

Falling rice prices have led to protests by farmers and hurt the government's popularity, especially that of Commerce ...

(Mainichi/Shoko Washizu) SAITAMA -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to surge since ... if this will lead to any relief, while one farmer in Saitama Prefecture spoke of harvests "halved ...