Record high temperatures in Japan could curb the country’s rice production, threatening to create shortages of the staple ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively high and steady.

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak its purchasing policy to counter a shortage and rein in sky-high prices.

Rice stocks at Japan Agricultural Cooperatives and other commercial wholesalers have been 400,000 tons short of last year’s levels, hitting a record-low 1.53 million tons as of June, farm ...

Data from Japan's agriculture ministry revealed that the average price of a five-kg bag of rice had fallen to 3,920 yen ($27.03) for the week ending June 15, which marked the first time that rice ...

Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of rice.

Japan is facing a “rice crisis” as the price of its favourite staple food has nearly doubled over the past year amid rising inflation and supply shortages. Government data released on Friday ...

The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the last year. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Pittsburgh scholar Kay Shimizu about what's behind the shortage in the homeland of sushi.

Japan, which takes deep pride in its homegrown rice, has also scaled up imports of rice from overseas, mainly from the US. In April, it also imported South Korean rice for the first time since 1999.

Japan imports 770,000 metric tons of rice tariff-free every year, around half of which comes from the U.S. Above that quota, Japan tariffs foreign rice at ¥341 (about $2.30) per kilogram, which ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where they would be offered at prices significantly lower than ...

Japan's ruling coalition has lost its majority in the country's upper house, but Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he has no plans to quit.