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

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

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

Government leaders in Japan released emergency rice supplies as rising prices and poor harvest increase political pressure.

Taiwan exported six times more rice to Japan in the first half of 2025 than a year earlier, with annual exports expected to ...

Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach ...

The Japanese government has started releasing low-cost rice from its emergency stockpiles as market prices soar to record ...

The Japanese government is releasing stockpiled rice to retailers at reduced prices to address high consumer costs.

In January 2025, the government made a new rule allowing it to release ... occur, emergency imports of “table rice,” served on its own as a key component of meals in Japan, could become ...

02:28 Japan to release emergency rice stocks as prices soar Japan to release emergency rice stocks as prices soar Farm Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who has pledged to make the stockpiled rice ...

In recent years, Japan's rice stockpile had only been tapped in the wake of natural disasters. "The government has always told us that they would not release its emergency rice stocks to control ...