Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

More families are wading into terraced paddy fields across Japan for the back-breaking work of growing rice under “part-time ...

NAGOYA, Japan >> Aichi prefecture is striving to increase rice production amid high rice prices across Japan. But the ...

The Japanese government is aiming to lower rice prices by selling further supplies of stockpiled rice directly to retailers.

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki's rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan has no other choice but to stop the rice ... This policy has discouraged farmers and driven more of them to quit farming, leaving rice paddies ruined as a result. It has also taken a toll ...

Retail rice prices in Japan climbed for the 19th time in 20 weeks, with limited impact from government stockpile releases aimed at easing the surge. The average retail price of rice in Japan rose ...

Canola blossoms are at their best in rice paddies in the city of Hashimoto ... be enjoyed until around the beginning of April. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi ...

The amount of land used for rice paddies shrank to 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres) in 2024, down from a peak of 3.4 million hectares in 1961. "The Japanese authorities have long focused ...