Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday he aimed to get rice on store shelves for ...

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, ...

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices.

New data has revealed just how much Japan is being drubbed by the current global economic uncertainty. Inflation spiked at a two-year high in April as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on the ...

When Japan's farm minister declared that he never had to buy rice because his supporters give him "plenty" of it as gifts, he ...

TOKYO -- Japan's newly appointed agriculture minister is aiming to make rice available in the "2,000-yen range" (around $14 ...

The price of rice in Japan in April this year increased by 98.4% compared to the same period last year, Azernews reports.

Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent. This happened as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, ...

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