TOKYO >> 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 ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a policy speech marking the start of the year's parliamentary session in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AFP) — The ...

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 ...

The recent tumultuous rice price situation in Japan has been a rollercoaster ride. Beginning with a poor harvest in 2023 and a minor rice shortage in the late summer of 2024, many began to think Japan ...

After months of increasing rice prices, Japanese consumers may be finally getting some relief. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Data from Japan's agriculture ministry revealed that the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Rice prices in Japan have doubled since last year partly due to supply shortages that began last year, triggering a national crisis that has caught policymakers and consumers ...

Feb. 14 (UPI) --p>Japan's government said Friday it will release rice from its stockpile to stabilize the supply in the market and counteract rapidly rising rice prices. The government released ...

KISARAZU, Japan (Reuters) -At a farmer's market not far from Tokyo, more than 100 shoppers queued for a chance to get a kilo or so of Japanese rice for 500 yen ($3.32) by carefully heaping as much of ...

Japan enacted a law in 1995 for the government to stockpile rice - Copyright AFP Yuichi YAMAZAKI Japan enacted a law in 1995 for the government to stockpile rice ...