Japan will hold a tender for tariff-free imported staple rice this month, earlier than the usual auction in September, to ...

This year's first auction for rice as staple food will take place on June 27 instead of the usual September, agriculture ...

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

Government leaders in Japan released emergency rice supplies as rising prices and poor harvest increase political pressure.

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 ...

The shortage has continued to bite despite the government releasing 300,000 tons of rice from its strategic reserve three ...

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

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's upcoming upper house election is set for July 20, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba decided not to extend the current parliamentary session, the Asahi newspaper reported on ...

Japan's farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi has returned to the political spotlight by launching a push to lower rice prices amid ...

The resurgence of a major rice pest is a headache for growers in Japan.

Japan's government started accepting applications for the next round of sales of stockpiled rice on Wednesday. The program ...

No longer confined to the imagination, the food of the future is available to see and even eat for attendees of the 2025 ...