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

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

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

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, April 28 (Reuters) - Japanese supermarket rice prices rose for the 16th straight week and doubled from a year ago, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, despite the government's release ...

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 ...