The Japanese government is releasing rice from its emergency reserve for the first time to address a supermarket shortage and ...

Japan should aim to boost annual rice exports, including packaged rice and rice flour, to 353,000 tons in 2030, up eightfold from last year, a government panel has said. The target is included in ...

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The Japanese government held a rare auction this week to make up for a rice shortage that an official called “truly unthinkable.” By Kiuko Notoya and Yan Zhuang Kiuko Notoya reported from ...

The agriculture ministry said Friday that it has selected successful bidders for 141,796 tons of government-stockpiled rice in the initial round of an auction aimed at curbing recent increases in ...

The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down the surging price of the national staple. Rice shortages driven by factors from poor ...

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 ...

The amount of rice a household in Japan bought in 2024 rose 6.3 percent from a year earlier despite soaring prices, government data showed Saturday, as fears of a shortage of the main staple likely ...

(Mainichi/Kaho Kitayama) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise, hitting a new record at an average 4,172 yen ($28) per 5 kilograms, the government said Monday with the first ...

Japan's Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange will end trading in rice futures, it said on Friday, nearly 300 years after they began trading as the first product on the world's oldest futures exchange.

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.