Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain. It ...

* Yields of government bonds with the longest maturities have risen sharply - not just in the United States, where the ...

The price of Japanese-grown rice is soaring due to high inflation, low farm yields and a growing tourism sector.

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...

Japanese inflation spiked at a two-year high in April, data showed Friday, as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on ...

Japan’s rice prices have surged over 150%, triggering supermarket rationing, emergency reserves, and a ministerial ...

TOKYO -- Japan's private sector is expected to import roughly 20 times more rice in fiscal 2025 than the year before, as a historic surge in the price of the staple grain leads restaurants and ...

About 100 volunteers from around Japan carefully planted seedlings of the Koshihikari variety with the farmers. Wajima officials say rice will be planted this year on about 250 of the 1,000 ...

As Japan marks two years of COVID-19 being reclassified ... we aim to reinforce our health crisis management system,” said Norihiro Kokudo, president of JIHS, during the organization’s ...