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

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

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 in sky-high prices.

(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 ...

The Japanese government will release additional stockpiled rice every month until the end of July to stabilize soaring prices, farm minister Taku Eto said Wednesday. The announcement comes as price ...

The release of the stockpiled rice did not have the intended effect of holding down retail rice prices due to delays in shipments to such outlets because of a shortage of delivery trucks.

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 grain ...