Why are rice prices soaring in Japan? After covering the issue for nearly a year since last summer, I think I now know the ...

Japan's agriculture minister, Taku Eto, resigned on May 21 just six months into his term, following a public backlash to his ...

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Nearly 60 percent of Japanese believe soaring rice prices will fall with the appointment of a new farm minister, following ...

The Japanese government's announcement that it would sell 300,000 metric tons of rice directly to major retailers to curb ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is betting on lower rice prices, resulting from the release of government-stockpiled rice under ...

Japan's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi appeared on a TV Tokyo program on the night of May ...

The government depends on the cooperatives to get the additional Japanese rice to the market, and they’re taking their sweet time. The emergency imports are coming from South Korea, and, as you might ...

Rice is getting too expensive in Japan. Many people can’t afford it, and it’s becoming a big problem. The government is ...