referring to the crisis and the three-day auction that ended on Wednesday. Rice started to become scarce in Japan last summer. Experts have attributed that to a confluence of factors, including ...

Japan is releasing rice from its national emergency stockpile for the first time to combat shortages. High temperatures reducing rice production and stockpiling are thought to be behind the problem.

On the 10th, an auction that drew attention in Japan began. What was put up for auction was not commonly seen famous artists' paintings or luxury cars, but 150,000 tons of rice stockpiled by the ...

Japan's rice wholesalers are taking drastic action in light of soaring prices. They are striking deals for this year's harvest, with farmers who are yet to even plant the seeds. The operator of a ...

Japan's agriculture ministry says this year's rice consumption by foreign visitors to Japan is expected to increase 34 percent from last year to 70,000 tons. But ministry officials say it will ...

The agriculture ministry on Wednesday began to accept bids in the second round of its auction for government-stockpiled rice. The focus is on whether the release of reserve rice will help curb ...

TOKYO -- The drastic rise of rice prices in Japan has not stopped households from buying more of the dietary staple. The price of rice jumped by 70.9% in January from a year earlier, consumer ...

Thus, rice prices going UP in such an environment as above, regardless of domestic Japanese considerations ... to just import more and more tourists instead and blame them for the "crisis". This is a ...

Takashi Takanashi, head of the Spice House Co., a company based in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, specialising in wholesale ...

Japan stores about a million tons of rice for emergencies ... Experts say several factors have contributed to the crisis. Among them is a tourism boom and shortages caused by record heatwaves ...

Tokyo, Japan — The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid ... factors have contributed to the crisis. Among them is a tourism boom and ...