The Japanese government is releasing rice from its emergency reserve for the first time to address a supermarket shortage and soaring prices. Japan's agriculture ministry held an auction last week ...

Private rice inventories in Japan amounted to 1.56 million tonnes in June 2024, the lowest end-of-season volume since 1999 when comparable data was first collected, according to the agriculture ...

he Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down the surging price of the national staple. Rice shortages driven by factors from ...

[TOKYO] The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down the surging price of the national staple. Rice shortages driven by factors ...

Japan wants to boost its rice exports almost eightfold by 2030, a ministry official said Thursday, despite currently suffering a domestic shortage of the grain. The country's rice consumption has ...

The Japanese government held a rare auction this week to make up for a rice shortage that an official called “truly unthinkable.” By Kiuko Notoya and Yan Zhuang Kiuko Notoya reported from ...

“Look at Japan, tariffing rice 700%,” US Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday during a press conference. She pointed to a chart that appeared to list tariff percentages from countries ...

The agriculture ministry said Friday that it has selected successful bidders for 141,796 tons of government-stockpiled rice in the initial round of an auction aimed at curbing recent increases in ...

Russia increases its Ukraine offensive, Wellington Water faces scrutiny, and Cyclone Alfred triggers insurance chaos in Australia. The Japanese Government today began a rare auction of its ...

Ripe rice plants are pictured in Miyagi Prefecture in this file photo taken on Aug. 28, 2017. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government plans to increase the country's rice exports by ...