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

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

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

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

The top “Koshihikari” brand now sells for nearly 5,000 yen ($35) per 5 kilograms. Rice stocks at Japan Agricultural ...

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

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 ...

Facing escalating public grievances over soaring rice prices and with a crucial national election looming this summer, Prime ...

Taiwan exported six times more rice to Japan in the first half of 2025 than a year earlier, with annual exports expected to ...

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