The Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA ... to match the new goal of price stabilization. Second, stockpiled rice was released without setting metrics to evaluate the policy’s effectiveness.

Japan’s core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent. This happened as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, official data showed Friday. The consumer price reading excluding fresh food ...

Japanese data paint a mixed picture of the economy. There are growing downside risks as output contracts. Yet, there are increasing upside risks for inflation. The Bank of Japan is likely to ...

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 ...

The Japanese government is releasing stockpiled rice to retailers at reduced prices to address high consumer costs.

To solve the problem of soaring rice prices, Japan’s turning to a classic retailer’s playbook: rebranding the old as “vintage ...

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

TOKYO (AP) — Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen ...

Japan aims to cut stockpiled rice prices to 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms (11 lb) and get rice onto shop shelves more ...