In response to escalating rice prices, Japan has released its strategic reserves of the staple food, aiming to stabilize the ...

We spoke with an acclaimed chef to find out why your homemade version of Japanese rice never tastes as good as a restaurant's ...

The Japanese government is releasing supplies from its emergency rice stockpile for the first time to address shortages that ...

Rice prices have continued to climb at supermarkets across Japan despite the arrival of recently released national stockpiles on store shelves.

Japanese people are worried right now.” Mr. Iizuka sells rice raw by the bag, and cooked in the form of rice balls with pickled plums, salmon and other fillings. Last month, he was forced to ...

Rice prices continue to soar in Japan, even after the government announced it would release some of the emergency national stockpile onto the market. They have now nearly doubled in the past year due ...

It’s eaten with almost every meal, but a shortage of rice has sent prices soaring in Japan. The crisis has forced the ...

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...