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 ...

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.

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 ...

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 ...

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

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 ...

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 the ...