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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

People caught reselling rice for a profit, including the government’s emergency supplies, will face a fine or even ...

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