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 ...

Japan’s eel industry is struggling to keep pace with East Asia’s booming glass eel harvest despite the region recording its ...

Japan is considering using increased rice imports from the U.S. as a negotiating tool in tariff talks with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to various media reports.

Surging rice prices in Japan have opened a rare window of opportunity for South Korean producers to export the staple food to the country. Japan imported South Korean rice for the first time since ...

Tokyo, April 23 (Jiji Press)--Japan's agriculture ministry on Wednesday began to accept bids in the third round of its auction for government-stockpiled rice. In the third round of the auction ...

Concretely, it is said imports will be expanded through “minimum-access rice,” or Japan’s quota for rice that can be imported without a tariff. The government has set an annual quota of ...

Rice prices in Japan last month were almost twice what they were a year earlier, official data showed Friday, as core inflation accelerated in the world's number four economy. The price of the grain ...

Japan has traditionally protected its domestic rice industry in trade negotiations, but the government has determined that some concessions are necessary to secure exemption from U.S. tariffs ...

Japan is considering increasing its soybean and rice imports as a concession in trade negotiations with the US over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Japan’s Yomiuri daily reported on ...