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

Reports about fraudulent online rice shops to consumer affairs centers around the country spiked to 335 cases in April and ...

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

The government decided on Friday to prohibit the reselling of rice purchased at retail shops to ensure that rice reserves ...

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

People caught reselling rice for a profit, including the government’s emergency supplies, will face a fine or even ...

Japan's agriculture ministry says that sales of stockpiled rice will widen to stores across the country on Friday.

A guide to Japan’s rice from past harvests, currently being released from government stockpiles in a bid to tackle high ...

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

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

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