Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...

Rice prices in Japan have doubled since last year partly due to supply shortages that began last year, triggering a national ...

The government decided on Friday to prohibit the reselling of rice purchased at retail shops to ensure that rice reserves ...

A simmering crisis over staple rice has suddenly boiled over in Japan. Since 2023, a punishing heatwave slashed harvests to their lowest in over a decade.  As of June 2025, a 5-kilogram bag of ...

Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through 8 June, data showed on Monday, reflecting the release of cut-price grain from the government's emergency stockpile.

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki's rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...