Throughout most of this century, the Japanese dominated the cultured-pearl industry ... Immediately dubbed "Rice Krispies," the oddly shaped material with a crinkly surface dyed any number ...

Japan's Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange will end trading in rice futures, it said on Friday, nearly 300 years after they began trading as the first product on the world's oldest futures exchange.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has ordered the swift implementation of measures to give consumers relief from inflated food prices, including an unprecedented release of stockpiled rice to ...