Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...

Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

Japan will release 200,000 more metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpiles to address the doubling in prices since ...

When Japan's farm minister declared that he never had to buy rice because his supporters give him "plenty" of it as gifts, he ...

The government decided on Friday to prohibit the reselling of rice purchased at retail shops to ensure that rice reserves ...

Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi, who scrapped that system upon taking his post on May 21, said the government could also consider buying back rice from ...

This happened as rice prices almost doubled year ... The price rise has prompted Japan’s government to release some of its emergency stockpile into the market. Factors behind the shortfall ...

Japan's farm minister said on Tuesday the government stood ready to offer more stockpiled rice as consumers formed long queues to snatch up cheap, emergency-use grain made available through some ...