TOKYO (Reuters) -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 ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Japan will release 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpiles to address the doubling of prices since last year. This was revealed by Japan's Agricultural Minister, ...

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 metric tons of tariff-free staple rice the government imports a year, and ...

The unprecedented release from emergency rice stockpiles was seen in part as an attempt to figure out distribution problems. The government has denied there is now a rice shortage, but officials ...

Japanese rice demand has decreased over recent decades as people's diets have diversified, ... The unprecedented release from emergency rice stockpiles was seen in part as an attempt to figure out ...

Japanese rice demand has decreased over recent decades as people's diets have diversified, ... The unprecedented release from emergency rice stockpiles was seen in part as an attempt to figure out ...

Japanese rice demand has decreased over recent decades as people's diets have diversified, ... The unprecedented release from emergency rice stockpiles was seen in part as an attempt to figure out ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from ...

Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a gift.