Regardless of the numbers, the pressure of negotiating with the U.S. is putting a spotlight on an ongoing rice crisis in ...

By bno - Jakarta bureau Japan is grappling with a major rice shortage, as stores struggle to keep up with demand and soaring ...

Maybe the whole sellers are stockpiling rice but not families, what's this assumption based on by the Japanese government. I asked dozens of people and not one had more than one bag of 5 kilos in ...

WHEN a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an American variety. The price of ...

TOKYO — Rice is a staple in Japanese culture and cuisine, so much so that the word for “meal” is synonymous with “cooked rice.” But demand for the grain is rapidly outstripping supply ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an ...

They fell by half in two years? Don't think so. This is market manipulation. Farmers and rice production simply falling too fast, time for Japan to 'give up the goat' and lower import tariffs Japan ...

"Rice is everything" in Japan, according to Firstpost, but consumers are facing a crisis: the country is running out of supplies and the price is rocketing. Extreme shortages throughout the ...