Japan will release an additional 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile by July to address a nationwide ...

Will the government's release of 210,000 tons of stockpiled rice ease supermarket prices that have more than doubled over the ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. announced May 13 it will release a new 100% California-grown rice labeled "Karoyaka ...

Japan's agriculture ministry on May 16 announced a revision of the bidding system under which government stockpiled rice is ...

(Mainichi/Kazugi Yamaguchi) TOKYO -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise for 15 consecutive weeks despite the release of crops ... the price of their stock by about 100 yen (some 70 ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government is considering ... But the ministry decided on the release on the condition that the same amount of rice is bought back, in principle, within ...

Tokyo, May 15 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese agriculture ministry is considering releasing 100,000 tons of government-stockpiled rice through auctions planned to be held every month in May-July ...

Rice prices across Japan climbed for the 13th consecutive ... This prompted the agriculture ministry, which had previously been hesitant to release rice from the government’s emergency reserves ...

The agriculture ministry said Wednesday that it will hold the third auction of its reserved rice April 23-25. In total, 100,000 tons of stockpiled 2023 rice will be auctioned, including such brand ...

Shoppers may soon get welcome relief for soaring rice prices as the government started the release of its massive stockpile of the staple food stored for emergencies on March 18. The government ...

WHEN a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year ... That’s despite a rare release of rice from the government’s emergency stockpiles that started in March and is ...

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 ...