Yet unlike the American petroleum reserve, which former President Biden tapped during his term to help lower gas prices, ...

High duties on imports often leave Japan with a surplus of rice and the government subsidizes alternative farming on old paddies. Nonetheless, the wealth made on the exchange in the heady days of ...

Last week, I had a rare opportunity of visiting Japan's tranquil rice fields in Nara region and my mind was captivated by the transformative power of rice farming. I envisioned its potential to ...

Simply sign up to the Japanese ... the agriculture ministry agreed in principle to add a clause to the guidelines allowing the reserves to be tapped “when smooth distribution of staple rice ...

Cultivating rice in water-logged paddies is a traditional farming method that has been practiced in Japan for more than 1,000 years. One of the project team’s main goals is to scientifically ...

Japan. “Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in ...