Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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's farm minister Taku Eto on Monday ... Despite emerging signs of stabilization, the average rice price has roughly doubled from around the same time last year, partly because of a poor ...

While Japan’s agriculture ministry has been trying to curb soaring prices by releasing government stockpiles, the move has had little effect in reining in prices. Rice prices in around 1,000 ...

fearing prices would fall, said Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. Japan could have avoided the problem by allowing more rice to be planted and ...

fearing prices would fall, Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. Japan could have avoided the problem by allowing more rice to be planted and exporting ...