Japan's rice prices have doubled in a year, straining households and fueling political tension ahead of key elections ...

Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff talks with the United States, its top negotiator said ...

When Japan's farm minister declared that he never had to buy rice because his supporters give him "plenty" of it as gifts, he hoped to draw laughs. Instead Taku Eto drew outrage - and enough of it to ...

Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

Rice prices in Japan have started to ease, falling below Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s target of below 4,000 yen for a five ...

Credit: Depositphotos The recent tumultuous rice price situation in Japan has been a rollercoaster ride. Beginning with a poor harvest in 2023 and a minor rice shortage in the late summer of 2024 ...

These exports are a sliver of the overall rice consumption in Japan, which the Ministry of Agriculture places at 7.8 million tons between July 2023 and June 2024.

Most rice farmers in Japan are small-scale. In 2024, almost two-thirds of rice farmers in Japan cultivated less than one hectare. Yet large-scale farmers are needed to sustain production. In 2020, for ...

As Japan continues to struggle with rice shortages and rising prices, it wastes up to 4 tons of the grain every day—and that’s just in and around one prefecture.

He explains that it costs approximately 18,500 yen ($125.70; £94.60) to produce 60kg of rice but the cooperative in his area of Niigata on the west coast of Japan offered to buy it last year at ...

These exports are a sliver of the overall rice consumption in Japan, which the Ministry of Agriculture places at 7.8 million tons between July 2023 and June 2024.

He explains that it costs approximately 18,500 yen ($125.70; £94.60) to produce 60kg of rice but the cooperative in his area of Niigata on the west coast of Japan offered to buy it last year at ...