Supermarket giant Aeon said this week it would start selling 100% U.S.-produced Calrose rice from early June. It began offering a Calrose-Japanese rice blend last month. Japanese consumers are ...

The medium-grain Calrose, light in texture, goes well with pilaf and risotto dishes, as well as Asian cuisine, officials said. The Karoyaka rice is cheaper than domestic varieties despite a tariff ...

The price of the Californian Calrose rice he buys has doubled ... rice - which is consumed at meals as opposed to rice used for feed or ingredients in other products - has been home-grown.

Japanese retailers are turning to California-grown rice, known as Calrose, as an alternative to Japanese rice, which remains pricey and hard to come by. On Tuesday, major retailer Aeon held a ...

Japan limits tariff-free “minimum access” imports of staple rice to 100,000 tonnes a year, or around 1 per cent of total consumption. The US accounted for roughly 60 per cent of that amount ...

The price of the Californian Calrose rice he buys has doubled ... rice - which is consumed at meals as opposed to rice used for feed or ingredients in other products - has been home-grown.

The price of the Californian Calrose rice he buys has doubled since his first purchase last summer ... nearly all of Japan's so-called staple rice - which is consumed at meals as opposed to rice used ...

Private imports of overseas rice have been increasing rapidly in Japan due to shortages in the domestic market. In the fiscal year 2024, rice import applications submitted to the government ...

When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an American variety. The price of ...

When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an American variety. The price of the ...

White rice is many things, but it’s not nutty, like farro or buckwheat. It’s not bouncy-chewy , like wild rice or barley. And it doesn’t pack a good amount of protein, as quinoa does.