This year, the harvest is early, and the best season will be until mid-March. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children.

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food ... But utilizing the harvest to be otherwise delivered to the global ...

Crowds line the streets to watch a parade of competing beauty queens atop their regional floats, and the festival ... Harvest Queen is chosen amid a backdrop of spectacular fireworks. Dewi Sri ...

Rice prices at supermarkets across Japan have ... Prices started rising since last summer amid a shortage before the fall harvest was brought in. But the continued increases have defied ...

This summer’s extreme heat has devastated the quality of rice, with the harvest of top-quality rice in Japan dropping to a record low, data showed. The drought and a record heat wave that ...

The price surges came even as the government started auctioning its stockpiles earlier this month to ease soaring prices of the Japanese staple. The spike in rice prices followed a poor harvest in the ...