Concerns rise over children choking on food in Japan A series of choking accidents involving children, some of them fatal, has led to a push to create dedicated food safety standards for kids in ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Core consumer prices in Japan rose 3.2 percent in March ... which excludes volatile fresh food, accelerated from 3.0 percent in February, according to the Ministry ...

Japan's government warned of uncertainty over the impact of US trade policies as tariffs could hurt the global economy but it ...

Japan’s calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate in fiscal 2023 stood at 38 percent, unchanged for the third consecutive year, the farm ministry said. The rate has remained at a low level for ...

TOKYO -- Core consumer prices in Japan rose 3.2% in March from a year earlier, as the cost of rice increased at its fastest pace in more than 50 years. Rice prices rose 92.1% in March, versus last ...

and multiple mass food safety cases across Japan. Japanese media reports noted a recent spike in violent crimes across the country. Since December 2024, indiscriminate killings have occurred in ...