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

TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency ... trade detente 12:56 AM UTC Asian stocks were ending a strong week on ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak its purchasing policy to counter a shortage and rein ...

(Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO -- The Japanese government and ruling coalition decided May 14 to distribute 100,000 metric tons of stockpiled rice as the fourth batch release to ease price ...

The agriculture ministry has announced a set of measures to help stockpiled rice released by the government reach store shelves more quickly, including the creation of an auction quota for bidders ...

The Japanese government plans to roughly double the supply of stockpiled rice to about 600,000 tons and relax bidding ...

TOKYO -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise for ... the main reasons for the delay in reserve rice stocks reaching stores are the release coinciding with the busy end-of-fiscal year ...