Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner ...

The agriculture ministry said Wednesday that it will hold the third auction of its reserved rice April 23-25. In total, ...

Japan is considering increasing its soybean and rice imports as a concession in trade negotiations with the U.S. over ...

TOKYO -- Japan's private sector is expected to import roughly 20 times more rice in fiscal 2025 than the year before, as a historic surge in the price of the staple grain leads restaurants and ...

When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: He switched to a US variety. The price of the ...

An increasing number of Japanese tourists are visiting South Korea to buy rice, as prices continue to soar in Japan, retail industry officials say. Japanese visitors have increasingly been spotted ...

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 ...